Toparchy
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TOPARCHY.A compound word from Greek topos (place) and archç (rule), found only in 1Ma_11:28 (cf. 1Ma_10:30; 1Ma_10:38; 1Ma_10:11-34) among the sacred books, but very many times in the papyri of Egypt (with reference to that country). It means a very small administrative division of territory. Three toparchies were detached from Samaria and added to Judæa in Maccabæan times.
A. Souter.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
tō?par-ki, top?ar-ki (τοπαρχία, toparchı́a): the King James Version renders this Greek word by ?government? in 1 Macc 11:28 (the King James Version margin and the Revised Version (British and American) ?province?). It denotes a small administrative district corresponding to the modern Turkish Nahieh, administered by a Mudı̄r. Three such districts were detached from the country of Samaria and added to Judea. Elsewhere (1 Macc 10:30; 11:34) the word used to describe them is nómos. Some idea of the size of these districts may be gathered from the fact that Judea was divided into ten (Pliny v. 14) or eleven (BJ, III, iii, 5) toparchies.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(τοπαρχία, government of a district), a term applied in one passage of the original of the Apocrypha (1Ma_11:28) to indicate three districts to which elsewhere (10, 30; 11:34) the name νομός is given, as also in Josephus (Ant. 13:4, 9). In all these passages the English version employs the term governments. The three toparchies in question were Aphserima (Α᾿φαίρεμα), Lydda and Ramiath. They had been detached from Samaria, Persea, and Galilee respectively, some time before the war between Demetrius Soter and Alexander Bala. Each of the two belligerents endeavored to win over Jonathan, the Jewish high-priest, to their side, by allowing him, among other privileges, the sovereign power over these districts without any payment of land-tax. The situation of Lydda is doubtful; for the toparchy Lydda of which Pliny speaks (5, 14) is situated not in Persia, but on the western side of the Jordan. Aph-Eerima is considered by Grotius to denote the region about Bethel, captured by Abijah from Jeroboam (2Ch_13:19). Ramath is probably the famous stronghold, the desire of obtaining which led to the unfortunate expedition of the allied sovereigns Ahab and Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22). Pliny (5, 14) mentions ten toparchies in Judaea, and so does Josephus (War, 3, 3, 5).
The toparchies seem to have been of the nature of the modern Turkish agaliks, and the passages in which the word τοπάρχης occurs all harmonize with the view of that functionary as the aga, whose duty would be to collect the taxes and administer justice in all cases affecting the revenue, and who, for the purpose of enforcing payment, would have the command of a small military force. He would thus be the lowest in the hierarchy of a despotic administration to whom troops would be entrusted; and hence the taunt in 2Ki_18:24, and Isa_36:9 (Sept.): τῶς ἀποστρέψεις τὸ πρὸσωπον (פִּחִת, captain) τοπαρχου ἑνός, τῶν δούλων τοῦ κυρίου μου τῶν ἐλαχίστων; How wilt thou resist a single toparch, one of the very least of my lord's slaves? But the essential character of the toparch is that of a fiscal officer, and his military character is altogether subordinate to his civil. Hence the word is employed in Gen_41:34 for the officers over the land (פִּקַיד, overseer), who were instructed' to buy up the fifth part of the produce of the soil during the seven years of abundance. In Dan_3:3, Theodosius uses the word in a much more extensive sense, making it equivalent to satraps (אֲחִשְׁדָרְפְנִיָא, wise), and the English version renders the original by princes; but the original word here is not the same as in Dan_3:2; Dan_3:27; Dan_6:7, in every one of which cases, a subordinate functionary is contemplated.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
A. Souter.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
tō?par-ki, top?ar-ki (τοπαρχία, toparchı́a): the King James Version renders this Greek word by ?government? in 1 Macc 11:28 (the King James Version margin and the Revised Version (British and American) ?province?). It denotes a small administrative district corresponding to the modern Turkish Nahieh, administered by a Mudı̄r. Three such districts were detached from the country of Samaria and added to Judea. Elsewhere (1 Macc 10:30; 11:34) the word used to describe them is nómos. Some idea of the size of these districts may be gathered from the fact that Judea was divided into ten (Pliny v. 14) or eleven (BJ, III, iii, 5) toparchies.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(τοπαρχία, government of a district), a term applied in one passage of the original of the Apocrypha (1Ma_11:28) to indicate three districts to which elsewhere (10, 30; 11:34) the name νομός is given, as also in Josephus (Ant. 13:4, 9). In all these passages the English version employs the term governments. The three toparchies in question were Aphserima (Α᾿φαίρεμα), Lydda and Ramiath. They had been detached from Samaria, Persea, and Galilee respectively, some time before the war between Demetrius Soter and Alexander Bala. Each of the two belligerents endeavored to win over Jonathan, the Jewish high-priest, to their side, by allowing him, among other privileges, the sovereign power over these districts without any payment of land-tax. The situation of Lydda is doubtful; for the toparchy Lydda of which Pliny speaks (5, 14) is situated not in Persia, but on the western side of the Jordan. Aph-Eerima is considered by Grotius to denote the region about Bethel, captured by Abijah from Jeroboam (2Ch_13:19). Ramath is probably the famous stronghold, the desire of obtaining which led to the unfortunate expedition of the allied sovereigns Ahab and Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22). Pliny (5, 14) mentions ten toparchies in Judaea, and so does Josephus (War, 3, 3, 5).
The toparchies seem to have been of the nature of the modern Turkish agaliks, and the passages in which the word τοπάρχης occurs all harmonize with the view of that functionary as the aga, whose duty would be to collect the taxes and administer justice in all cases affecting the revenue, and who, for the purpose of enforcing payment, would have the command of a small military force. He would thus be the lowest in the hierarchy of a despotic administration to whom troops would be entrusted; and hence the taunt in 2Ki_18:24, and Isa_36:9 (Sept.): τῶς ἀποστρέψεις τὸ πρὸσωπον (פִּחִת, captain) τοπαρχου ἑνός, τῶν δούλων τοῦ κυρίου μου τῶν ἐλαχίστων; How wilt thou resist a single toparch, one of the very least of my lord's slaves? But the essential character of the toparch is that of a fiscal officer, and his military character is altogether subordinate to his civil. Hence the word is employed in Gen_41:34 for the officers over the land (פִּקַיד, overseer), who were instructed' to buy up the fifth part of the produce of the soil during the seven years of abundance. In Dan_3:3, Theodosius uses the word in a much more extensive sense, making it equivalent to satraps (אֲחִשְׁדָרְפְנִיָא, wise), and the English version renders the original by princes; but the original word here is not the same as in Dan_3:2; Dan_3:27; Dan_6:7, in every one of which cases, a subordinate functionary is contemplated.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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