Tarpelites Ezra 4:9
. Colonists planted in Samaria after Israel's deportation by Assyria. Conjectured to be the Tapyri, a Median tribe E. of Elymais (Ptolemy vi. 2, section 6), or the Tarpetes, a Maeotic race (Strabo, 11:495).
Tarpelites Ezra 4:9
. Colonists planted in Samaria after Israel's deportation by Assyria. Conjectured to be the Tapyri, a Median tribe E. of Elymais (Ptolemy vi. 2, section 6), or the Tarpetes, a Maeotic race (Strabo, 11:495).