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title: אַרְכִּי — Arkite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַרְכִּי (757), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Arkite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַרְכִּי

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«אַרְכִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Arkite** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 757 · **BDB:** אַרְכִּי

### Glosses

Arkite (5); the.Arkite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַרְכִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/757/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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.

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