Strong's #670: 'Apharcay (pronounced af-aw-re-sah'ee)

(Aramaic) of foreign origin (only in the plural); an Apherasite or inhabitant of an unknown region of Assyria:-- Apharsite.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

(Aramaic)

'ăphâresay

Apharsite = "causers of division (?)"

1) (CLBL) an unknown office

2) (BDB) secretaries

3) (TWOT) perhaps a title of an official

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine plural; Persian

Relation: of foreign origin (only in the plural)

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Ezra 4:9: "of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites,"