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Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, [and] the Elamites,
Ezra 4:9 — KJV
The Dinaites. The word thus translated, taken by the older translators as one representing a people, appears also in the Elephantine papyri, where its primary meaning is “judge” or “magistrate.” It is so translated in the RSV.
The Apharsathchites. This word, found again in Ezra 6:6, is taken by most modern commentators as the Aramaic or Persian term designating a certain class of officers, although an exact equivalent aside from these two instances is unknown. The same is true of the “Tarpelites.”
The Apharsites. This word either designates an unknown class of officers or should be vocalized (see Vol. I, pp. 25, 26) in Hebrew so as to read “Persians” (RSV).
Archevites. People from the city of Erech (see on Genesis 10:10), now Warka, in southern Mesopotamia.
Dehavites. The word thus translated, formerly thought to designate a people, should be vocalized so as to mean “that is” (see Vol. I, pp. 25, 26). The latter part of Ezra 4:9 then reads, “the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites” (RSV).
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