Arkite

Mentioned in 2303 BC traditional (Jones)

(Gen. 10:17; 1 Chr. 1:15), a designation of certain descendants from the Phoenicians or Sidonians, the inhabitants of Arka, 12 miles north of Tripoli, opposite the northern extremity of Lebanon.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Canaan
Siblings: Amorite, Arvadite, Girgasite, Hamathite, Heth, Hivite, Jebusite, Sinite, 2 more
Tagged in: 2 verses

The 13th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Mentioned in the era of the Flood to Abraham, 2348–1997 BC.
Named in the same verses as Hivite and Sinite.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent. Large families are folded into one node; select it to open them.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2328–2278 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 5 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Genesis1
1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Arkite 0
KJV	Arkite 2
ASV	Arkite 2

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis1 verse

10:17
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

1 Chronicles1 verse

1:15
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.