Arpad

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Arpad
     (Isa. 10:9; 36:19; 37:13), also Arphad, support, a Syrian city
     near Hamath, along with which it is invariably mentioned (2
     Kings 19:13; 18:34; Isa. 10:9), and Damascus (Jer. 49:23). After
     a siege of three years it fell (B.C. 742) before the Assyrian
     king Tiglath-pileser II. Now Tell Erfud.


     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Arpad, the light of redemption