Lexical Definition

‎טַרְפְּלַי‎ Ṭarpᵉlay (tar-pel-ah'-ee) officials ^N:N--LG
(Aramaic) from a name of foreign derivation

Tarpelites. y

• § Tarpelites = "they of the fallen (or wondrous) mountain"
• a Tarpelite (collectively) or inhabitants of Tarpel, a place in Assyria

1) the group of Assyrian colonists who were planted in the cities of Samaria after the captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel; identity uncertain

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎טַרְפְּלָיֵא‎ proper name, of a people so most, Ezra 4:9 (Andr^{M 64*} a title; Hoffm^{ZA ii. 55} compare * Persian taraparda, i.e. beyond the bridge; < Scheft⁸⁶ compare Old Iranian tarapâra, beyond the shore [= transriparii Id.^{MGWJ 47, 316}] translation of ‎עֲבַר נַהֲרָא‎).

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