אַרְכִּי
arki · Archite
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H757 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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arki (אַרְכִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Archite”.
A clan that lived on the border between Ephraim and Benjamin; Hushai, David's friend, belonged to it (2 Samuel 15:32).
How to say it
ar·ki
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Of the clan Hushai, David's counselor, belonged to.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Archite ×5
- Archites ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Joshua 16:2
and it went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the territory of the Archites at Ataroth;
- 2 Samuel 15:32
When David came to the summit, where he used to bow down there to Elohim, there to meet him came Hushai the Archite, with his tunic torn and earth on his head.
- 2 Samuel 16:16
When Hushai the Archite, David’s companion, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
- 2 Samuel 17:5
Absalom said, “Please call Hushai the Archite too, and let us hear what is in his mouth, his too.”
- 2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For YHWH had commanded to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that YHWH might bring the evil on Absalom.
- 1 Chronicles 27:33
Ahithophel was counselor to the king, and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.