Barkos
== Easton's Bible Dictionary == Ezra 2:53Nehemiah 7:55 == Holman Bible Dictionary == Ezra 2:53 == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible ==
BARKOS . Ancestor of certain Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel ( Ezra 2:53 , Nehemiah 7:55; called Barchus in 1Es 5:32 ).
== Morrish Bible Dictionary ==
Ancestor of some Nethinim who returned from exile. Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55 .
== Smith's Bible Dictionary ==
Bar'kos. (painted). "Children of Barkos" were among the Nethinim who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55. (B.C. 536).
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ==
bar´kos ( בּרקוס , barḳoṣ , "party-colored" (?): compare Gray, Studies in Hebrew Proper Names , 68, note 2): The descendants of Barkos returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55 ). Compare Barchus (1 Esdras 5:32).
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==
(Heb. Barkos', בִּרְקוֹס prob. for בֶּןאּרְקוֹס, painter; Sept. Βαρκός, Βαρκουέ ), the head of one of the families of Nethinim that returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55). B.C. ante 536. Schwarz, however, regards it as the name of a place, identical with the modern village Berkusia, six miles north-west of Beit-Jebrin (Palestine, p. 116).
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