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Apharsathchites; Apharsachites
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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af -ar -sath´kı̄ts , a -far´sak -ı̄ts ( אפרסתכיא , 'ăpharṣathkhāyē' ): A tribe living in Samaria that protested against the rebuilding of the Temple, and brought their complaint to Darius (Ezra 4:9; Ezra 5:6; Ezra 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 Assyrian king was ever so situated as to have been able to obtain colonists from Persia. Some maintain with Marquardt that the term is not the name of a tribe, but the title of certain officers under Darius. Fred. Delitzsch suggests the inhabitants of one of the two great Medean towns "Partakka" and "Partukka" mentioned in Esarhaddon's inscriptions. Andreas plausibly connects it with the Assyrian suparsak (Muss-Arnolt, Assyrian Dict. , 1098), saqu (3) "general"; Scheft takes it from an old Iranian word aparasarka , "lesser ruler."
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Apharsathchites; Apharsachites'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/a/apharsathchites-apharsachites.html. 1915.
