671. Apharckay
Jump to: LexiconBDBStrong's
Lexicon
Apharckay: Apharsachites
Original Word: אֲפַרְסְכָיֵא
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Apharckay
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ar-sek-ah'ee)
Short Definition: Apharsachites

Brown-Driver-Briggs
אֲפָֽרְסְכָיֵא Ezra 5:6; Ezra 6:6 #NAME?

אֲפָֽרְסַתְּכָיֵא Ezra 4:9, proper name, plural of a people, so most hitherto, and still MeyEnst. J. 38 ff. (Persians), but many moderns think official title (HoffmZA ii. 54 Marquart64 JenThLZ, 1895, 509 Ency. Bib.:190 f.; plausible explanations are: AndrM 53* = Assyrian šuparša‡ (see Muss-ArnAssyrian Dict. 1098 š¹q¥ 3, general, IdAJSL xx (1904), 186 ff.); Scheft76 = Old Iranian aparasaraka, lesser ruler; IdMGWJ 47 (1903),315f. explained תְּכָיֵא- as Old Persian *aparaθrãka, lesser governor).



Strong's
Apharsachites, Apharasthchites

(Aramaic) or fapharcathkay (Aramaic) {af-ar-sath-kah'ee}; of foreign origin (only in the plural); an Apharsekite or Apharsathkite, an unknown Assyrian tribe -- Apharsachites, Apharasthchites.

670
Top of Page
Top of Page




Bible Apps.com