STRONGS NUMBER H6208


Word Summary
Arqi: descendant of Canaan, inhabitant of the city of Arka
Original Word: עַרְקִי
Transliteration: Arqi
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-kee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: descendant of Canaan, inhabitant of the city of Arka
Meaning: Arkite -- descendant of Canaan, inhabitants of the city of Arka
Strong's Concordance
Arkite

Patrial from an unused name meaning a tush; an Arkite or inhabitant of Erek -- Arkite.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6208. Arqi

עַרְקִיadjective, of a people Arkite, inhabitant of city ±Ar‡ƒµa (Assyrian Ar‡a COTGlossary DlPa 282, Tel Amarna Ir‡at(a), Egyptian Ar‡antu, compare Assyrian name of a people Ir‡anatai COTGloss, Ency. Bib.i. 310); — only ׳הָע‎ as n.collective Genesis 10:17, τὸν Ἀρουκαῖον, = 1 Chronicles 1:15, A id., ᵐ5L τὸν Αρακει: modern ±Ar‡a, near Mediterranean, approximately 60 miles north of Beirut (compare Ency. Bib.l.c.).

I. ערר‎ (√ of following; on this [and not עור‎] see NöZMG xxxii (1878), 404 LagSymm. ii. 91 f.; compare Palmyrene מערתאsepulchre).