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# אַרְכִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H757

**Arkite** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Arkite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/757/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְכִּי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/757/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. (deriv. unknown) applied to חוּשַׁי 2 S 15:32; 16:16; 17:5, 14; 1 Ch 27:33; with art. = n. coll. גְּבוּל הָא׳ Jos 16:2 (not far from Bethel).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Arkite (5); the Arkite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 27:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.33/#tree)

וַאֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל יוֹעֵ֣ץ לַמֶּ֑לֶךְס וְחוּשַׁ֥י הָאַרְכִּ֖י רֵ֥עַ הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and Ahithophel \[was\].a.counselor of the king and Hushai the Arkite \[was\].the.friend of the.king

*JPS 1917:* and Ahithophel was the king's counsellor; and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend;

[Joshua 16:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.2/#tree)

וְיָצָ֥א מִבֵּֽית־אֵ֖לבֵּֽית־אֵ֖ל ל֑וּזָה וְעָבַ֛ר אֶל־גְּב֥וּל הָאַרְכִּ֖י עֲטָרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.out from Bethel Bethel to Luz and it.passes.on to the.border of the.Arkite\[s\] Ataroth

*JPS 1917:* And it went out from Beth-el-luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/757.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/757/): 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).