Persia
אֲפָֽרְסָיֵאStrong’s H0670apharesay (a-pha-re-say)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Apharesay is the Aramaic word usually translated “sipparites the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,”
Meaning
- Persia or Apharsite = "causers of division (?)"
How it's translated
- sipparites the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
אֲפָֽרְסָיֵא apharesay · Persia
Persia or Apharsite = "causers of division (?)" (CLBL) an unknown office (TWOT) perhaps a title of an official Another spelling of pa.ras (פָּרַס "Persia" H6539)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.