APHARSACHITES.See next article.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
a people sent by the kings of Assyria to inhabit the country of Samaria, in the room of those Israelites who had been removed beyond the Euphrates, Ezr_5:6. They, with the other Samaritans, opposed the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, Ezr_4:9.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
Aphar?sachites or Apharsathchites, the name of the nation to which belonged one portion of the colonists whom the Assyrian king planted in Samaria (Ezr_4:9; Ezr_5:6).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Apharsachites
(Chald. Apharsekaye', אֲפִרְסְכָיֵא; Sept. Α᾿φαρσαχαῖοι, Ezr_5:6; Ezr_6:6) or Aphar'sathchites (Chald. Apharsathkaye', אֲפִרְסִתְכָיֵא; Sept. Α᾿φαρσαθαχαῖοι, Ezr_4:9), the name of the nation (or one of the nations) to which belonged one portion of the colonists whom the Assyrian king planted in Samaria, in place of the expatriated northern tribes, and who violently opposed the Jews in rebuilding Jerusalem. Schulthess (Parad. p. 362) identifies the Apharsachites with the Persian, or rather Median Parataceni of Greek geography (Strabo 11, 522; 15, 732; Herod. 1:101; Plin. 16:29), the A being prosthetic (as in Strabo, 15:764, Mardi and Amardi are interchanged). They, together with the Apharsites (q.v.), for whose name this would seem only another form, appear to have been some foreign tribe of Eastern Asia, conquered by the Assyrians, and removed (according to well-known usage, see 2Ki_18:32 sq.) to another region for security and political extension. Ewald (Isr. Gesch. 3, 375), following Gesenius, regards the name as only. another for the Persians, themselves, adopted out of hostility to the Jews (ib. p. 120), and in a three-fold form to enhance their own importance.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.