Strong H670אֲפָֽרְסָיֵא
Persia
- Transliteration
- 'ăphâresay
- Pronunciation
- af-aw-re-sah'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
(Chaldee); of foreign origin (only in the plural); an Apharesite or inhabitant of an unknown region of Assyria: - Apharsite.
Meaning of the name
Persia or Apharsite = "causers of division (?)"
Detailed definition
Persia was the empire that conquered Babylon and allowed the exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
In the biblical story
Persia
An empire that ruled over the exiled Jews
Persia was the empire that conquered Babylon and allowed the exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
In the Bible
Strong H670 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- apharsites1
First verses
- Ezra 4:9Then 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,