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title: אַרְפַּכְשַׁד — Arphaxad · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַרְפַּכְשַׁד (775), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: Arphaxad. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַרְפַּכְשַׁד

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«אַרְפַּכְשַׁד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Arphaxad** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 775 · **BDB:** אַרְפַּכְשַׁד

### Glosses

Arphaxad (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַרְפַּכְשַׁד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/775/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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שֵׁ֥ם ׀ אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד שָֽׁלַח׃

*Word for word:* Shem Arphaxad Shelah

*JPS 1917:* Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;

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

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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.

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