ARPAD (Jewish Encyclopedia)
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A city of northern Syria, the modern Tell-Erfad, thirteen miles northwest of Aleppo. Itis mentioned in 2Kg 18:34, xix. 13; Isa 10:9, xxxvi. 19, xxxvii. 13; Jer 49:23. Rammannirari III. fought against it (Schrader, "Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek," i. 209), and Tiglath-pileser III. besieged it for two years and captured it about 740 B.C. (ib. i. 213, and Isa 10:9).
This entry includes text from the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906.
