Ἀρφαξάδ
Arphaxad
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Arphaxad’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G742 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
Αρφαξαδ (Arphaxád) is a Greek name most often rendered “Arphaxad.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Luke 3:36. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G742 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was the son of arphaxad 1×
- American Standard Version: Son of arphaxad 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Arphaxad 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Arphaxad 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G742 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G742 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G742 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G742 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Arphaxad = "stronghold of Chaldees"
- the son of Shem and ancestor of Eber
Word origin
Derived from ארפכשד (ʼArpakshad) (H775) — Arphaxad.
Of hebrew origin [ H775 ]; Arphaxad a post diluvian patriarch : - Arphaxad.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Arphaxad). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(stronghold of the Chaldees).
+ The son of Shem and ancestor of Eber. (Genesis 10:22,24; 11:10) + Arphaxad, a king "who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana," Judith 1:1-4; perhaps the same as Phraortes, who fell in a battle with the Assyrians, 633 B.C.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a healer; a releaser
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Αρφαξαδ appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 2 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 10:22 αρφαξαδ
- 1 Chronicles 1:11 αρφαξαδ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G742) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 10:22 αρφαξαδ The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- Genesis 10:24 αρφαξαδ Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
- Genesis 11:10 αρφαξαδ This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:11 αρφαξαδ Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:12 αρφαξαδ Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah.
- Genesis 11:13 αρφαξαδ Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 1:11 αρφαξαδ Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G742) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
