Arzareth (Hastings' Dictionary)

A region beyond the river from which the ten tribes are to return. It has been supposed to represent the Heb. mnn jnn (Dt 19^), and became the subject of many later Jewish legends concerning the Sabbatic River beyond which the lost tribes were to be found — variously identified with the Oxus and the Ganges. The true site of the Sabbatic River is, however, in Syria, north-east of Tripoli, the present Nahr es Sebta.

Northern SjTia appears to be called the Land of Akharri or ' westerns ' in cuneiform texts. C. R. Conder.