Arphaxad:
son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age of 438 years (Gen 11:10-13; 1Ch 1:17,18; Luk 3:36). He dwelt in Mesopotamia, and became, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans. The tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the country nearest the ancient domain of the Chaldeans. Some regard the word as an Egypticized form of the territorial name of Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees.
Arphaxad:
a healer; a releaser
Arphaxad:
ar-fak'-sad:
(1) the King James Version form (Ge 10:22,24; 11:12,13; 1Ch 1:17) of the Revised Version (British and American) ARPACHSHAD, which see. See also TABLE OF NATIONS.
(2) In Apocrypha (Judith 1) a king of the Medes, who reigned in Ecbatana. He was defeated and slain by Nebuchadrezzar.
Arphaxad:
(stronghold of the Chaldees).
(1.) The son of Shem and ancestor of Eber (Genesis 10:22; 10:24; 11:10).
(2.)Arphaxad, a king "who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana," (Judith 1:1-4) perhaps the same as Phraortes, who fell in a battle with the Assyrians. (B.C. 633)
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