Casiphia

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Casiphia: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a place in Babylon settled by Israelites during their exile

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money; covetousness

Google Maps: Casiphia (35° 8´, 36° 44´)

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.:-Casiphia.
see HEBREW for 03701

Casiphia [EBD]

silver, a place between Babylon and Jerusalem, where Iddo resided (Ezra 8:17); otherwise unknown.

Casiphia [NAVE]

CASIPHIA, a place in the Persian empire, Ezra 8:17.

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."