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• אַרְכִּי

(Heb., with the art., ha-Arki', הָאִרְכִּי, as if from a place named Erech, אֶרֶךְ; Sept. οΑ῾᾿ραχί , Vulg. Arachites), the usual designation of David's friend Hushai (2 Samuel 15:32; 2 Samuel 17:5; 2 Samuel 17:14; 1 Chronicles 27:33). The word also appears (somewhat disguised, it is true, in the Auth. Vers.) in Joshua 16:2, where "the borders of Archi" (i.e. "the Archite") are named as on the boundary of the "children of Joseph," somewhere in the neighborhood of Bethel. No town of the name of Erech appears in Palestine: it is possible that, as in the case of the Gerizi, the Zemarites, and the Jebusites, we have here the last faint trace of one of the original tribes of the country. (See ARCHI).