(stronghold of the Chaldees)

1. The son of Shem, grandson of Noah and ancestor of Eber (Genesis 10:22, 24; 11:10)
2. Arphaxad, a king “who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana,” Judith 1:1-4; perhaps the same as Phraortes, who fell in a battle with the Assyrians, 633 B.C.