אֲפָרְסַי
ʼĂphârᵉçay · H670 · Hebrew · proper noun · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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overseer, official
Literally: Persian; hence: person of authority in the Persian empire
ExamplesEzra 4:9 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Leaders001001003005
- Ezra 4:9 lists those who joined the accusatory letter against Jerusalem, “Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites.”
- Officials001001003007
- Ezra 4:9 lists those who joined the accusatory letter against Jerusalem, “Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H670. apharesaye אֲפָֽרְסָיֵא (K§ 52, 2 d)) proper name, plural of a people Ezr 4:9, ᵐ5L…
אֲפָֽרְסָיֵא (K§ 52, 2 d)) proper name, plural of a people Ezr 4:9, ᵐ5L Ἀφρασαῖοι, A Ἀφαρσαῖοι; GesLex. Man. RöThes. Add. 107 HoffmZA ii. 55 MeyEnst. J. 38 Persians; DlBaer Ezr 60 Scheft75 Parsua (in Media [see StreckZA xv.308 ff.]; yet v. COTon the passage); Marquart64 (א)סָֽרְַיָּא secretaries (א dittograph of preceding); often identify. with following, so AndrM 53*.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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