Lexical Summary Apharckay: official Original Word: אֲפַרְסְכַיTransliteration: Apharckay Phonetic Spelling: (af-ar-sek-ah'ee) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: official Meaning: an Apharsekite, Apharsathkite Strong's Concordance 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. Brown-Driver-Briggs H671. Apharckay אֲפָֽרְסְכָיֵא Ezra 5:6; 6:6 +? 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). |
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