Dict: smith - APHARSATHCHITES, APHARSITES, APHARSACITES

smith:

APHARSATHCHITES, APHARSITES, APHARSACITES - A>@ - the names of certain tribes, colonies from which had been planted in Samaria by the Assyrian leader Asnapper. kjv@Ezra:4:9 kjv@Ezra:5:6) The first and last are regarded as the same. Whence these tribes came is entirely a matter of conjecture.