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# אַרְכְּוָי

Biblical Aramaic

**Archevite** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Archevite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5db_5b0_5bc_5d5_5b8_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְכְּוָיֵ֯: n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5db_5b0_5bc_5d5_5b8_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. people of Erech (BH אֶרֶךְ; so also MeyE. Jud. 40);—pl. emph. Ezr 4:9 (Qr אַרְכְּוָיֵא; cf.K§ 61, 6).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.9/#tree)

אֱדַ֜יִן רְח֣וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵ֗ם וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ סָֽפְרָ֔א וּשְׁאָ֖ר כְּנָוָתְה֑וֹן דִּ֠ינָיֵאוַאֲפַרְסַתְכָיֵ֞א טַרְפְּלָיֵ֣א אֲפָֽרְסָיֵ֗א אַרְכְּוָיֵ֤א בָבְלָיֵא֙ שֽׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵ֔א דֶּהָיֵ֖א עֵלְמָיֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* then Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe and the.rest of their.associates \[the\] Dinay and the officials the Tarpelites the Sipparites the Erechites the Babylonians the Susanchites the Dehavites the Elamites

*JPS 1917:* then wrote Rehum the commander, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinites, and the Apharesattechites, the Tarpelites, the Apharesites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehites, the Elamites,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5db_5b0_5bc_5d5_5b8_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5db_5b0_5bc_5d5_5b8_5d9/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).