Apharsites
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Easton's 1897
Another of the tribes removed to Samaria (Ezra 4:9), or perhaps the same as the preceding.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain
ISBE 1915
From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915). Where it reports or adopts critical theories, those are the views of its writers or the scholars they cite; Gospel Companion holds the historic Christian view of Scripture.
a-far'-sits ('apharcaye'): 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.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain
In Scripture
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- Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Public domain
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · Public domain