Arkite

English

Etymology 1

Ark +‎ -ite

Adjective

Arkite (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to Noah's Ark.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Faber to this entry?)

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Noun

Arkite (plural Arkites)

  1. One of the descendants of Canaan, according to Genesis 10:17 and 1 Chronicles 1:15, and also inhabitants of the land of Canaan, according to Joshua 16:2.
    David's friend Hushai was an Arkite (2 Samuel 15:32).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Arkite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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