Arphaxad

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Arphaxad
     son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age
     of 438 years (Gen. 11:10-13; 1 Chr. 1:17, 18; Luke 3:36). He
     dwelt in Mesopotamia, and became, according to the Jewish
     historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans. The
     tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the country


     nearest the ancient domain of the Chaldeans. Some regard the
     word as an Egypticized form of the territorial name of Ur
     Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees.
     

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

  Arphaxad, a healer; a releaser