Strong's #671: 'Apharckay (pronounced af-ar-sek-ah'ee)

(Aramaic) or fApharcathkay (Aramaic) {af-ar-sath-kah'ee}; of foreign origin (only in the plural); an Apharsekite or Apharsathkite, an unknown Assyrian tribe:--Apharsachites, Apharasthchites.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

/ (Aramaic)

'ăpharsekay / 'ăpharsathkay

Apharsathchites = "I will divide the deceivers (?)"

1) (CLBL) an unknown office

2) (BDB) perhaps an office or an official

3) (TWOT)

3a) a people

3b) perhaps a title of an official

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine plural; Persian

Relation: of foreign origin

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2599, 2600

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Ezra 4:9: "the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites,"
Ezra 5:6: "the river, and Shethar-boznai, the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent"
Ezra 6:6: "the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, are beyond the river, be"