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Friday, November 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #670 - אֲפָרְסָי

Transliteration

ʼĂphârᵉçay

Phonetics

af-aw-re-sah'

Origin

of foreign origin (only in the plural)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine plural noun (of Persian origin)

TWOT

2598

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Apharsite = "causers of division (?)"
(CLBL) an unknown office
(BDB) secretaries
(TWOT) perhaps a title of an official

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Ezra 1

BSB (1)

Ezra 1

CSB (1)

Ezra 1

ESV (1)

Ezra 1

KJV (1)

Ezra 1

LEB (1)

Ezra 1

LSB (1)

Ezra 1

N95 (1)

Ezra 1

NAS (1)

Ezra 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Ezra 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

אֲפָֽרְסָיֵא (K^{§ 52,2 d})) proper name, plural of a people Ezra 4:9, ᵐ5^L Ἀφρασαῖοι, A Ἀφαρσαῖοι; Ges^{Lex. Man.} Rö^{Thes. Add. 107} Hoffm^{ZA ii. 55} Mey^{Enst. J. 38} Persians; Dl^{Baer Ezra 60} Scheft⁷⁵ Parsua (in Media [see Streck^{ZA xv.308 ff.}]; yet v. COT^{on the passage}); Marquart⁶⁴ (א)סָֽרְַיָּא secretaries (א dittograph of preceding); often identify. with following, so Andr^{M 53}*.

List of Word Forms

אֲפָֽרְסָיֵ֗א אפרסיא ’ă·p̄ā·rə·sā·yê ’ăp̄ārəsāyê afaresaYe