Arphaxad
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber....
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And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber....
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These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:...
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Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad (Hebrew: אַרְפַּכְשַׁד /
אַרְפַּכְשָׁד, Modern Arpakhshad Tiberian ʾArpaḵšaḏ / ʾArpaḵšāḏ ;
Arabic: 'أرفخشذ', Ārfakhshad; "healer," "releaser") was one
of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah (Genesis 10:22,
24; 11:10-13; 1 Chron. 1:17-18). His brothers were Elam,
Asshur, Lud and Aram; he is an ancestor of...
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ar-fak'-sad: (1) the King James Version form (Gen 10:22,24;
11:12,13; 1 Ch 1:17) of the Revised Version (British and
American) ARPACHSHAD, which see. See also TABLE OF NATIONS.
(2) In Apocrypha (Judith 1) a king of the Medes, who reigned
in Ecbatana. He was defeated and slain by Nebuchadrezzar....
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Son of Shem
Ge 10:22; 11:10-13; 1Ch 1:17,18,24; Lu 3:36...
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(stronghold of the Chaldees).
1. The son of Shem and ancestor of Eber. Ge 10:22,24;
11:10
2. Arphaxad, a king "who reigned over the Medes in
Ecbatana," Judith 1:1-4; perhaps the same as Phraortes, who
fell in a battle with the Assyrians, 633 B.C....
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son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the
age
of 438 years (Gen. 11:10-13; 1 Chr. 1:17, 18; Luke
3:36). He
dwelt in Mesopotamia, and became, according to the
Jewish
historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans.
The
tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the
country
nearest the ancient domain of the Chald...
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(Genesis 10:21-24. Professor Rawlinson translates: "unto Shem
also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder
brother of Japhet, were children born, Arphaxad": Genesis
11:10) ("the stronghold of the Chaldees".) Shem's descendants
are mentioned last, because the subsequent sacred history
concerns them chiefly. His being forefather to Eb...
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