Archi

A city on the boundary of Ephraim and Benjamin (Josh. 16:2), between Bethel and Beth-horon the nether.

(Joshua 16:2) A place in the neighborhood of Bethel, on the boundary between Ephraim and Benjamin. It designates a clan perhaps originally from Erech in Babylonia, of which Hushai was one. [Archite, The]

AR'CHI. Josh 16:2. A place near Bethel, perhaps settled by a colony from Babylon, and named after Erech in Babylonia. Conder identifies it with the village of 'Ain 'Arek, which is in the required position.

AR'CHI. Josh 16:2. A place near Bethel, perhaps settled by a colony from Babylon, and named after Erech

in Babylonia. Conder identifies it with the village of 'Ain 'Arek, which is in the required position.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.