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Barkos

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Easton's 1897Smith's 1884ISBE 19152 verse references

Easton's 1897

Painter, (Ezra 2:53; Neh. 7:55). The father of some of the Nethinim.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain

Smith's 1884

(painted). "Children of Barkos" were among the Nethinim who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55) (B.C. 536.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 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.

bar'-kos (barqoc, "party-colored" (?) compare Gray, Studies in Hebrew Proper Names, 68, note 2): The descendants of Barkos returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezr 2:53; Ne 7:55). Compare Barchus (1 Esdras 5:32).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

In Scripture

Ezra 2:53Nehemiah 7:55
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