Ar'chi. Jos_16:2. A place in the neighborhood of Bethel, on the boundary between Ephraim and Benjamin. It designates a clan perhaps originally from Erech in Babylonia, of which Hushai was one. See Archite, The.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ar?kı̄. See ARCHITES.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Archi
(Heb. Arki', אִרְכִּי; Sept. combines with the following word, Α᾿ρχιαταρώθ; Vulg. Archi Ataroth; but the Hebrews has no connective between the words, where the Auth. Vers. has prob. supplied the best relation to), a city or place on the boundary of Benjamin and Ephraim, between Bethel and Ataroth (Jos_16:2); supposed by some to be the region of Beni-Zeid (Keil, Comment. in loc.), which, however, is too far north SEE ATAROTH, and rather to be sought in the valley west of Bethel, perhaps at the ruined site called Kefr Musr. SEE TRIBE. It appears to designate (collectively used) a clan inhabiting a district called Erech (different, of course, from that in Babylonia, Gen_10:10), elsewhere named only as the residence of Hushai the Archite (Heb. Arki', אֲרְכִּי, Sept. Α᾿ρχί v. r. Α᾿ραχί), one of those who adhered to David during Absalom's rebellion (2Sa_15:32; 2Sa_16:16). SEE ARCHITE.
Archi
This place has, with great probability, been identified with the present in Ar Ak, a small modern village with a Greek Church adjoining, laid down on the Ordnance map four and one eighth miles west of ElBireh (Conder, Tent Work, ii, 104; Tristram, Bible Places, p. 176).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.