BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1302
bar.qos — Barkos
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.53 § Barkos = "the son cut off" head of a family of temple-slaves who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Painter, (Ezra 2:53; Neh. 7:55). The father of some of the Nethinim.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
