Officials
טַרְפְּלָיֵאStrong’s H2967tarpelay (tar-pe-lay)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tarpelay is the Aramaic word usually translated “tarpelites 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
- § Tarpelites = "they of the fallen (or wondrous) mountain"
How it's translated
- tarpelites the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
טַרְפְּלָיֵא tarpelay · officials
§ Tarpelites = "they of the fallen (or wondrous) mountain" the group of Assyrian colonists who were planted in the cities of Samaria after the captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel; identity uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “official” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OFFI'CIAL, adjective
- Pertaining to an office or public trust.
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as an official statement or report.
- Conducive by virtue of appropriate powers.
All definitions and other forms of “official”
OFFI'CIAL, noun
An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.