Original Word: אֲפָרְסָיֵא
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: apharesaye
Phonetic Spelling: (af-aw-re-sah'ee)
Short Definition: secretaries (K^{§ 52, 2 d})) Ezra 4:9, ^L , A ; Ges^{Lex. Man.} Rö^{Thes. Add. 107} Hoffm^{ZA ii. 55} Mey^{Enst. J. 38} Persians; Dl^{Baer Ezr 60} Scheft⁷⁵ Parsua (in Media [see Streck^{ZA xv.308 ff.}]; yet v. COT^{on the passage}); Marquart⁶⁴ secretaries ( dittograph of preceding); often identify. with following, so Andr^{M 53}*.

Apharsite

(Aramaic) of foreign origin (only in the plural); an Apherasite or inhabitant of an unknown region of Assyria -- Apharsite.

אֲפָֽרְסָיֵ֗א אפרסיא ’ă·p̄ā·rə·sā·yê ’ăp̄ārəsāyê afaresaYeInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts

Strong's Hebrew 670
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’ă·p̄ā·rə·sā·yê — 1 Occ.

Ezra 4:9
HEB: וַאֲפַרְסַתְכָיֵ֞א טַרְפְּלָיֵ֣א אֲפָֽרְסָיֵ֗א [אַרְכְּוָי כ]
NAS: the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech,
KJV: the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites,
INT: and the lesser the officials the secretaries Archevite the Babylonians

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