Dict: smith - ARKITE, THE

smith:

ARKITE, THE - A>@ - from Arka , one of the families of the Canaanites, kjv@Genesis:10:17; kjv@1Chronicles:1:16) and from the context evidently located in the north of Phoenicia. The site which now bears the name of ’Arka lies on the coast, 2 to 2 1/2 hours from the shore, about 12 miles north of Tripoli and 5 south of the Nahr el
- Kebir .