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# אַרְפַּכְשַׁד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H775

**Arphaxad** — used 9 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

Arphaxad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/775/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְפַּכְשַׁד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/775/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 3rd son of Shem א׳ Gn 10:22, 24; 11:12, 13; 1 Ch 1:17, 18, 24; אַרְפַּכְשָׁ֑ד Gn 11:10, 11; doubtless a geogr. name (deriv. & meaning dub., Thes der. from أُرْفَةٌ boundary (stem أَرَفَ define, limit), cf. also Ethiopic አረፍት wall, + כשׁד = כֶּשֶׂד, i.e. Chaldean; so SchrCOT Gn 10:22 who identifies with Babylonia (cf. Gn 11:12 f. & אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים v 28, 31); v. another interpr. DlPa 255, according to most = Arrapachitis on Upper Zab, NE. from Nineveh, Assyrian Arbaḫa, Armen. Albak LagArmen. Stud. 55 & reff. so Bö MV, Di Gn 10:22 LagSy i. 54 NöZMG 1882, 182; but Assyrian Arbaḫa is unfavourable to this).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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: Arphaxad (9).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.24/#tree)

שֵׁ֥ם ׀ אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד שָֽׁלַח׃

*Word for word:* Shem Arphaxad Shelah

*JPS 1917:* Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;

[Genesis 10:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.24/#tree)

וְאַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד יָלַ֣ד אֶת־שָׁ֑לַח וְשֶׁ֖לַח יָלַ֥ד אֶת־עֵֽבֶר׃

*Word for word:* and Arphaxad he.fathered (et) Shelah and Shelah he.fathered (et) Eber

*JPS 1917:* And Arpachshad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/775.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/775/): 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).