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Casiphia

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ka -sif´i -a , ka -sif -ē´a ( כּספיא , kāṣiphyā' ): An unidentified place in North Babylonia, near the river Ahava, to which Ezra sent for "ministers for the house of our God" (Ezra 8:17 ). Some have thought the name to be connected with keṣeph , "silver" or "money." Septuagint renders argurı́ō toú tópou , as in 1 Esdras 8:45, "the place of the treasury.»
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Casiphia'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​c/casiphia.html. 1915.
 
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