אַרְפַּכְשַׁד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H775

Arphaxad — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Arphaxad tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְפַּכְשַׁד: n.pr.m. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.m. 3rd son of Shem א׳ Gn 10:22, 24; 11:12, 13; 1 Ch 1:17, 18, 24; אַרְפַּכְשָׁ֑ד Gn 11:10, 11; doubtless a geogr. name (deriv. & meaning dub., Thes der. from أُرْفَةٌ boundary (stem أَرَفَ define, limit), cf. also Ethiopic አረፍት wall, + כשׁד = כֶּשֶׂד, i.e. Chaldean; so SchrCOT Gn 10:22 who identifies with Babylonia (cf. Gn 11:12 f. & אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים v 28, 31); v. another interpr. DlPa 255, according to most = Arrapachitis on Upper Zab, NE. from Nineveh, Assyrian Arbaḫa, Armen. Albak LagArmen. Stud. 55 & reff. so Bö MV, Di Gn 10:22 LagSy i. 54 NöZMG 1882, 182; but Assyrian Arbaḫa is unfavourable to this).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Arphaxad (9).

In the verses

1 Chronicles 1:24 · tree →

שֵׁ֥ם ׀ אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד שָֽׁלַח׃

Word for word: Shem Arphaxad Shelah

JPS 1917: Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;

Genesis 10:24 · tree →

וְאַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד יָלַ֣ד אֶת־שָׁ֑לַח וְשֶׁ֖לַח יָלַ֥ד אֶת־עֵֽבֶר׃

Word for word: and Arphaxad he.fathered (et) Shelah and Shelah he.fathered (et) Eber

JPS 1917: And Arpachshad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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