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Apharsathchites, The Aphar’sathchites, The. See Apharsites, The. Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Apharsathchites, Apharsachites af-ar-sathkts, a-farsak-ts (, ‘apharsathkhaye’): A tribe living in Samaria that protested against the rebuilding of the Temple, and brought their complaint to Darius (Ezr 4:9; Ezr 5:6; Ezr 6:6). The tribe has not yet been recognized with any certainty in the inscriptions. Rawlinson identifies them with the Persians; other scholars deny that any … Continue reading “Apharsathchites, Apharsachites”

Apharsathchites Apharsachites identical (Ezr 4:9; Ezr 5:6), Apharsites distinct (Ezr 4:9). There were mountaineers, Paraetacae, between Media and Persia, who may answer to the former. The latter seems to correspond to the Persians, in a local and restricted sense; else the Parrhasii. Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary Apharsathchites APHARSATHCHITES (probably the same as the Apharsachites, Ezr … Continue reading “Apharsathchites”

Apharsacites, The Aphar’sacites, The. See Apharsites, The. Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Apharsachites, Apharsathchites [Aphar’sachites, Aphar’sathchites] Some unknown Assyrian tribe sent as colonists to Samaria under Asnapper. Ezr 4:9; Ezr 5:6; Ezr 6:6. Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary

Apharsachites (Chald. Apharsekaye’, ; Sept. , Ezr 5:6; Ezr 6:6) or Aphar’sathchites (Chald. Apharsathkaye’, ; Sept. , Ezr 4:9), the name of the nation (or one of the nations) to which belonged one portion of the colonists whom the Assyrian king planted in Samaria, in place of the expatriated northern tribes, and who violently opposed … Continue reading “Apharsachites”

APHARASACHITES Ezr 4:9 ; 5:6; named among the heathen subjects of the king of Assyria, transplanted into Samaria. The Apharsites, also named in Ezr 4:9, are regarded by Luther as Persians. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

APHAERESIS APHAERESIS is, when the first letter or syllable of a word is cut off; for instance, Tit 1:12, for : Gnom. on this passage. Rev 20:8, Gog for Magog: See Gnom.-Accidental AphAEresis (Fortuita AphAEresis) is noticed in the Apparatus Crit. on 1Ti 3:16 and Mat 7:14. Fuente: Gnomon Technical Terms

Aphaerema ( in the Apocrypha) or Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Aphaerema APHREMA (1Ma 11:34).A district taken from Samaria and added to Juda by Demetrius Soter (Ant. XIII. iv. 9). See Eprhaim, No. 1. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Aphaerema a-fere-ma (, Apharema and Apherema; the King James Version Apherema). One … Continue reading “Aphaerema”

Aphaca ( , according to the ancients, from the Heb., , aphaks, to embrace, with reference to the loves of Venus and Adonis, Etymol. Mag. s.v.; see Movers, Phnm. 1, 192), a town of Coele-Syria, midway between Heliopolis and lyblus (Zosim. Hist. 1, 58), a position, as Reland thinks (Paloest. p. 315), not inconsistent with … Continue reading “Aphaca”