Arpachshad (Hastings' Dictionary)

The third son of Shem, A. was the father of Shelah, and ^an J father of Eber, from whom the Hebrews traced their descent (Gn lij^-"* ll'"""). Gesenius regards the name as also desijjTiatinj' a people or region, and tliinks the con- jecture of Bochart not imjjrobable, that this is 'A/S^a- rax'Tt!, Arrapachitis, a region of Assyria near Ar- menia (Ptol. vi. 1), the native land of the Chald;i'ans. Jos. (Ant. I. vi. 4) says that from him the Chaldaains were called Arphaxadieans ['Ap<paiadalovs). R.

M. Boyd. ARPAD (n?^¥)- — A city of Syria north-west of Aleppo, 2 K 18" 19'^ Is 10" 36" 37'», Jer 49^. Now the ruin Tell Erfiid. The city stood a two years' siege by Tiglath-pileser lu. C. R. Conder. ARPHAXAD CAp^dJ).— 1. A king of the Medes (Jth l'"-). He reigned at Ecbatana, which he strongly fortified. Nebuchadrezzar, king of Assyria, made war upon him, defeated liini, and put him to death. Some nave identified A. with Deioces, the founder of Ecbatana, and others with his son Phraortes.

But the former of these died in peace, and tlie latter fell while besieging Nineveh. The narrative in Judith would accord better with the supposition that he was Astyages or Ahasuerus, the last kin<j of the Medes according to Herodotus. 2. The spelling of Arpachshad in AV, and at Lk 3" by RV also. See Arpachshad. R. M. Boyd. ARRAY (formed by prefixing ar to the subst.

'oi, rui, order, arrangement) is common in AV for the arrangement or order of an army in battle, always in the phrase ' set in a.' or ' put in a.' (But RV gives once 'order the battle a.' 1 Ch 12^.) The subst. is also used once for dress, i.e. garments arranged in order on the person, instead of the common word raiment ( = arrayment), 1 Ti 2" ' not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly a.' {l/MiTicrfws, RV 'raiment').

And in this sense the verb is frequent, as Gn 41" ' a'^ him in vestures of fine linen ' (Heb. paS, as always, except Jer 43" .iBV) ; Mt ti'-^ ' Solomon in all his glory wai not a"* like one of these' (irepi/3d\Xu, so Lk 12-'' 23"; bat Miu, Ac 12''" 'Herod, a'-" in royal apparel '). ' Array ' does not mean in tlie Bible, as it does now, 'to dress up with display,' but simply to put on raiment, to dress. J. Hastings.