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Tarpelites

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Assyrian colonists in Samaria after the captivity

(Ezra 4:9⁹Then 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)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Colonists placed in Samaria from some unknown district (Ezra 4:9⁹Then 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)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

2967 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

Tarplay

Phonic:

tar-pel-ah’-ee

Meaning:

(Aramaic) from a name of foreign derivation; a Tarpelite (collectively) or inhabitants of Tarpel, a place in Assyria

KJV Usage:

Tarpelites

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

they of the fallen mountain: they of the wondrous mountain

Potts’ Bible Proper Names:

Ravishers; hill of wonder:― a race of colonists in Samaria, Ezra 4:9. {Raptores}