ravishers; succession of miracles
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
TARPELITES.One of the peoples settled in the cities of Samaria (Ezr_4:9); text doubtful.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ezr_4:9. Colonists planted in Samaria after Israel's deportation by Assyria. Conjectured to be the Tapyri, a Median tribe E. of Elymais (Ptolemy vi. 2, section 6), or the Tarpetes, a Maeotic race (Strabo, 11:495).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
tar?pel-ı̄ts (טּרפּליא, ṭarpelāyē' (Ezr_4:9)): Various theories have been advanced as to the identity of the Tarpelites. Rawlinson suggested the Tuplai, which name appears in the inscriptions as equivalent to the Greek Tibarēnoı́, a tribe on the coast of Pontus. Hitzig located them in Tripolis in Northern Phoenicia. The latest theory emends the text to טפסריא, ṭı̄phṣerayā', ?tablet-writers? (from the Assyrian dup sarru); compare Schrader, Schrader, The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, on Jer_51:27.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.