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title: עַרְקִי — Arḳite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַרְקִי (6208), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Arḳite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Arḳite. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַרְקִי

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«עַרְקִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Arḳite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 6208 · **BDB:** עַרְקִי

### Glosses

Arkite\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Arḳite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6208/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Arḳite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6208/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Arḳite, inhabitant of city ʿArḳa (Assyrian Arḳa COTGloss. DlPa 282, TelAm. Irḳat(a), Egyptian Arḳantu, cf. Assyrian n.gent. Irḳanatai COTGloss., Ency. Bib. i. 310);—only הָע׳ as n.coll. Gn 10:17, τὸν Ἀρουκαῖον, = 1 Ch 1:15, A id., 𝔊L τὸν Αρακει: mod. ʿArḳa, near Mediterranean, c. 60 miles N. of Beirut (cf. Ency. Bib.l.c.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַרְקִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6208/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.17/)

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וְאֶת־הַֽחִוִּ֥י וְאֶת־הַֽעַרְקִ֖י וְאֶת־הַסִּינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Hivite\[s\] and (et) the Arkite\[s\] and (et) the Sinite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;

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[1 Chronicles 1:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.15/)

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וְאֶת־הַחִוִּ֥י וְאֶת־הַֽעַרְקִ֖י וְאֶת־הַסִּינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Hivite\[s\] and (et) the Arkite\[s\] and (et) the Sinite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;

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