Arpad

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ar'pad. (Strong City).  Isaiah 36:19;  Isaiah 37:13. A city or district in Syria, apparently dependent on Damascus.  Jeremiah 49:23. No trace of its existence has yet been discovered.  2 Kings 18:34;  2 Kings 19:13;  Isaiah 10:9.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Arpad . A city of Syria north-west of Aleppo (  2 Kings 18:34;   2 Kings 19:13 ,   Isaiah 10:9;   Isaiah 36:19;   Isaiah 37:13 ,   Jeremiah 49:28 ). Now the ruin Tell Erfud .

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Arpad ( Är'Pâd ), or Arphad ( Är'Făd ), Strong City. A town or region in Syria, near Hamath,  2 Kings 18:34;  Isaiah 10:9, dependent on Damascus,  Jeremiah 49:23.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Isaiah 10:9 36:19 37:13 2 Kings 19:13 18:34 Isaiah 10:9 Jeremiah 49:23

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A Syrian city, associated with Hamath,  2 Kings 18:34;  19:1-37;  Isaiah 10:9;  36:19 and with Damascus,   Jeremiah 49:23 . Its site is unknown.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Kings 10:34 2 Kings 19:13 Isaiah 10:5-19 Jeremiah 49:23

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A city dependent on Damascus, and always named with Hamath (now Hamah on the Orontes). It fell before Sennacherib ( 2 Kings 18:34;  Isaiah 10:9).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( Isaiah 36:19;  Isaiah 37:13) or Ar'phad (Heb. Arpad', אִרְפָּד , perhaps a support; but see below; Sept. in 2 Kings Ἀρφάδ , elsewhere Ἀρφάθ , in  Isaiah 10:9 undistinguishable), a Syrian city, having its own king ( 2 Kings 19:13;  Isaiah 37:13), in the neighborhood of Hamath ( 2 Kings 18:34;  Isaiah 10:9;  Isaiah 36:19) and Damascus ( Jeremiah 49:23), with both of which it appears to have been conquered by the Assyrians under Sennacherib. Michaelis and others seek Arphad in Raphance or Raphanee of the Greek geographers (Ptol. v, 15; Steph. Byzant. in Ε᾿Πιφάνεια ; Joseph. War, 7: 1, 3; 7:5, 1), which was a day's journey west of Hamath (Mannert, VI, i, 431). Paulus (Comment. in  Isaiah 10:9) thinks it was a city in the neighborhood of the Tigris and Euphrates. Some, however, are content to find this Arphad in the A Rpha ( Ἀρφᾶ ) which Josephus (War, iii, 3, 5) mentions as situated on the north-eastern frontier of the northernmost province of Herod Agrippa's tetrarchy; also called A rtha ( Ἀρθᾶ ) or Arfa by other ancient writers (Reland, Palcest. p. 584). But it seems best (with Doderloin and others) to refer it to the Phoenician island city Arvad or Aradus (q.v.), which was opposite Hamath (the interchange of פ and ו being very natural).