dehavites Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
dehavites in Easton's Bible Dictionary
villagers, one of the Assyrian tribes which Asnapper sent to repopulate Samaria (Ezra 4:9). They were probably a nomad Persian tribe on the east of the Caspian Sea, and near the Sea of Azof.
dehavites in Smith's Bible Dictionary
mentioned only once in Scripture, #Ezr 4:9| among the colonists planted in Samaria after the completion of the captivity of Israel. They are probably the Dai or Dahi, mentioned by Herodotus (i. 125) among the nomadic tribes of Persia.
dehavites in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
DEHA'VITES , supposed by Herodotus to be a Persian tribe, and, as some think, the same who are mentioned as from Ava. Ezr 4:9; 2 Kgs 17:24.
dehavites in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
Ezra 4:9. Persian colonists planted in Samaria by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, after carrying away Israel. Probably the Dahi (Herodotus, 1:125). Widely-scattered; under the name Dabae, at the E. of the Caspian (Strabo, 11:8, section 2, and 9, section 3), and near the sea of Azof; also as Dacians, upon the Danube. Possibly, ancestors of the Danes.