HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8662
תַּרְתָּ֑ק
tar.taq — Tartak
§ Tartak = "prince of darkness" one of the deities of the Avite people of Samaria according to tradition, worshipped under the form of an ass
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Tartak
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Prince of darkness, one of the gods of the Arvites, who colonized part of Samaria after the deportation of Israel by Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:31).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.