אַרְפַּכְשַׁד

«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.

Used: 9 times · Key: 775 · BDB: אַרְפַּכְשַׁד

Glosses

Arphaxad (9)

Meaning (OSHB)

Arphaxad tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. tree →

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).

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

1 Chronicles 1:24

שֵׁ֥ם ׀ אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד שָֽׁלַח׃

Word for word: Shem Arphaxad Shelah

JPS 1917: Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;

Genesis 10:24

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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