Lexicon Arpakshad: third son of Shem, also the region settled by him Original Word: אַרְפַּכְשַׁדPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Arpakshad Phonetic Spelling: (ar-pak-shad') Short Definition: Arpachshad NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionthird son of Shem, also the region settled by him NASB TranslationArpachshad (9).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אַרְמַּכְשַׁד proper name, masculine 3rd son of Shem ׳א Genesis 10:22,24; Genesis 11:12,13; 1 Chronicles 1:17,18,24; אַרְמַּכְשָׁ֑ד Genesis 11:10,11; doubtless a geographic name (derivation & meaning dubious, Thes derives from  boundary (stem  define, limit), compare also Ethiopic  wall, + כשׁד = כֶּשֶׂד, i.e. Chaldean; so Schr COT Genesis 10:22 who identifies with Babylonia (compare Genesis 11:12f. & אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים Genesis 11:28; Genesis 11:31); see another interpretations Dl Pa 255; according to most = Arrapachitis on Upper Zab, northeast from Nineveh, Assyrian Arba—a, Armen. Albak Lag Armen. Stud. 55 & references so Bo MV, Di Genesis 10:22 Lag Sy i. 54 Nö ZMG 1882, 182; but Assyrian Arba—a is unfavourable to this). Strong's Arphaxad Probably of foreign origin; Arpakshad, a son of Noah; also the region settled by him -- Arphaxad. |
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