ARCHITE.The native of a town [in Jos_16:2 read the Archites, not Archi as in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ] situated on the north border of Benjamin, possibly the modern Ain Arik, west of Bethel. Hushai, Davids friend (2Sa_15:32), belonged to this town.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Archite
(Heb., with the art., ha-Arki', הָאִרְכִּי, as if from a place named Erech, אֶרֶךְ; Sept. οΑ῾᾿ραχί, Vulg. Arachites), the usual designation of David's friend Hushai (2Sa_15:32; 2Sa_17:5; 2Sa_17:14; 1Ch_27:33). The word also appears (somewhat disguised, it is true, in the Auth. Vers.) in Jos_16:2, where the borders of Archi (i.e. the Archite) are named as on the boundary of the children of Joseph, somewhere in the neighborhood of Bethel. No town of the name of Erech appears in Palestine: it is possible that, as in the case of the Gerizi, the Zemarites, and the Jebusites, we have here the last faint trace of one of the original tribes of the country. SEE ARCHI.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
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