NAVE: Casiphia
EBD: Casiphia
SMITH: CASIPHIA
ISBE: CASIPHIA
Casiphia
In Bible versions:
Casiphia: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
money; covetousness
a place in Babylon settled by Israelites during their exile
a place in Babylon settled by Israelites during their exile
Hebrew
Strongs #03703: aypok Kaciphya'
Casiphia = "silvery"1) a place in Babylonia on the road between Babylon and Jerusalem;
site uncertain
3703 Kaciphya' kaw-sif-yaw'
perhaps from 3701; silvery; Casiphja, a place in Bab.: KJV -- Casiphia.see HEBREW for 03701
Casiphia [nave]
CASIPHIA, a place in the Persian empire, Ezra 8:17.Casiphia [ebd]
silver, a place between Babylon and Jerusalem, where Iddo resided (Ezra 8:17); otherwise unknown.
CASIPHIA [smith]
(silvery, white), a place of uncertain site on the road between Babylon and Jerusalem. (Ezra 8:17)CASIPHIA [isbe]
CASIPHIA - ka-sif'-i-a, ka-sif-e'-a (kaciphya'): An unidentified place in North Babylonia, near the river Ahava, to which Ezra sent for "ministers for the house of our God" (Ezr 8:17). Some have thought the name to be connected with keceph, "silver" or "money." Septuagint renders argurio tou topou, as in 1 Esdras 8:45, "the place of the treasury."
