Apharsites
Apharsites
(Chald. Apharsaye’, ; Sept. ), the name of a tribe removed along with the Apharsachites (q.v.) to Samaria by the king of Assyria, and forming one of the opponents of the Jews after the captivity (Ezr 4:9). Hiller (Onomnast.) regards them as the Parrhasii, a tribe of Eastern Media, and Gesenius (Thes. Heb. p. 143) thinks they are the Persians, to whose name theirs certainly bears a much greater affinity, especially in the prolonged form of the latter found in Daniel 6:29 (Chald. Parsaya’, ). The presence of the proper name of the Persians in Ezr 1:1; Ezr 4:3, must throw some doubt. upon Gesenius’ conjecture; but it is very possible that the local name of the tribe may have undergone alteration, while the official and general name was correctly given.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Apharsites
another of the tribes removed to Samaria (Ezra 4:9), or perhaps the same as the preceding.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Apharsites
APHARSITES (Ezr 4:9).One of the nations transported to Samaria by the Assyrians. Otherwise unknown. The text is doubtful.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Apharsites
a-farsts (, ‘apharsaye’): A tribe transferred to Samaria by Asnappar of Assyria (Ezr 4:9). Rawlinson identifies them with the APHARSACHITES (which see), taking Apharsites to be an accidental repetition of the same word. He understands the Persians to be meant in both cases. Others identify them with a Median tribe mentioned in the inscriptions of Sennacherib as dwellers in the district of Parsua.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Apharsites
[Aphar’sites]
An unknown Assyrian tribe as the preceding. Ezr 4:9.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Apharsites
H670
Ezr 4:9 2Ki 17