Lexical Summary apharesaye: official Original Word: אֲפָרְסַיTransliteration: apharesaye Phonetic Spelling: (af-aw-re-sah'ee) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: official Meaning: an Apherasite Strong's Concordance Apharsite (Aramaic) of foreign origin (only in the plural); an Apherasite or inhabitant of an unknown region of Assyria -- Apharsite. Brown-Driver-Briggs H670. apharesaye אֲפָֽרְסָיֵא (K§ 52, 2 d)) proper name, plural of a people Ezra 4:9, ᵐ5L Ἀφρασαῖοι, A Ἀφαρσαῖοι; GesLex. Man. RöThes. Add. 107 HoffmZA ii. 55 MeyEnst. J. 38 Persians; DlBaer Ezr 60 Scheft75 Parsua (in Media [see StreckZA xv.308 ff.]; yet v. COTon the passage); Marquart64 (א)סָֽרְַיָּא secretaries (א dittograph of preceding); often identify. with following, so AndrM 53*. |
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