Easton's Bible Dictionary Another of the tribes removed to Samaria (Ezra 4:9), or perhaps the same as the preceding. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia APHARSITES a-far'-sits ('apharcaye'): A tribe transferred to Samaria by Asnappar of Assyria (Ezra 4:9). Rawlinson identifies them with the APHARSACHITES (which see), taking Apharsites to be an accidental repetition of the same word. He understands "the Persians" to be meant in both cases. Others identify them with a Median tribe mentioned in the inscriptions of Sennacherib as dwellers in the district of Parsua.

Multi-Version Concordance Apharsites (1 Occurrence) Ezra 4:9 then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites, (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)