Difference between revisions of "Arpad"

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

<p> &nbsp;Arpad (&nbsp;är'pâd), or &nbsp;Arphad (&nbsp;är'făd), &nbsp;strong city. A town or region in Syria, near Hamath, &nbsp;2 Kings 18:34; &nbsp;Isaiah 10:9, dependent on Damascus, &nbsp;Jeremiah 49:23. </p>

<p> (&nbsp;Isaiah 36:19; &nbsp;Isaiah 37:13) or Ar'phad (Heb. &nbsp;Arpad', &nbsp;אִרְפָּד, perhaps a support; but see below; Sept. in 2 Kings &nbsp;Ἀρφάδ, elsewhere &nbsp;Ἀρφάθ &nbsp;, in &nbsp;Isaiah 10:9 undistinguishable), a Syrian city, having its own king (&nbsp;2 Kings 19:13; &nbsp;Isaiah 37:13), in the neighborhood of Hamath (&nbsp;2 Kings 18:34; &nbsp;Isaiah 10:9; &nbsp;Isaiah 36:19) and [[Damascus]] (&nbsp;Jeremiah 49:23), with both of which it appears to have been conquered by the [[Assyrians]] under Sennacherib. Michaelis and others seek [[Arphad]] in &nbsp;Raphance or &nbsp;Raphanee of the Greek geographers (Ptol. v, 15; Steph. Byzant. in &nbsp;Ε᾿πιφάνεια; Joseph. &nbsp;War, 7:1, 3; 7:5, 1), which was a day's journey west of Hamath (Mannert, VI, i, 431). [[Paulus]] &nbsp;(Comment. in &nbsp;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 &nbsp;A rpha (&nbsp;Ἀρφᾶ ) which [[Josephus]] &nbsp;(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 (&nbsp;Ἀρθᾶ ) or &nbsp;Arfa by other ancient writers (Reland, &nbsp;Palcest. p. 584). But it seems best (with Doderloin and others) to refer it to the Phoenician island city &nbsp;Arvad or [[Aradus]] (q.v.), which was opposite Hamath (the interchange of &nbsp;פ and &nbsp;ו being very natural). </p>