money; covetousness
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
CASIPHIA.A settlement in the neighbourhood of Ahava (wh. see) In North Babylonia (Ezr_8:17), whose site has not been identified.
J. F. McCurdy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
On the road between Babylon and Jerusalem (Est_8:17).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Casiph'ia. (silvery, white). A place, of uncertain site, on the road between Babylon and Jerusalem. Ezr_8:17.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ka-sif?i-a, ka-sif-ē?a (כּספיא, kāṣiphyā'): An unidentified place in North Babylonia, near the river Ahava, to which Ezra sent for ?ministers for the house of our God? (Ezr_8:17). Some have thought the name to be connected with keṣeph, ?silver? or ?money.? Septuagint renders argurı́ō toú tópou, as in 1 Esdras 8:45, ?the place of the treasury.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.