Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Arkite is the ancestral name of a Canaanite people descended from Canaan in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for a people-group because the dataset preserves national ancestors and ethnonyms in the same structure. First appears in Gen 10:17.1
Identity
male
First appears
Gen 10:17
AI summary: Arkite matters because the cross references place the name within the descendants of Canaan, helping map the peoples later associated with the land Israel will inhabit. These ethnonym entries broaden Genesis from family memoir into a structured account of the world's peoples. Taken together, the material presents Arkite as a Canaanite ethnonym contributing to the Bible's remembered geography of nations.1
Identity
male
(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. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.