Reference: Dehavites
American
A people beyond the Euphrates, who furnished colonists for Samaria, 2Ki 17:24; Ezr 4:9; supposed to be the Dahae, on the east of the Caspian sea, and under the Persian government.
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Easton
villagers, one of the Assyrian tribes which Asnapper sent to repopulate Samaria (Ezr 4:9). They were probably a nomad Persian tribe on the east of the Caspian Sea, and near the Sea of Azof.
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Fausets
Ezr 4:9. Persian colonists planted in Samaria by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, after carrying away Israel. Probably the Dahi (Herodotus, 1:125). Widely-scattered; under the name Dabae, at the E. of the Caspian (Strabo, 11:8, section 2, and 9, section 3), and near the sea of Azof; also as Dacians, upon the Danube. Possibly, ancestors of the Danes.
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Morish
Dehav'ites
Heathen colonists placed in Samaria on the captivity of the ten tribes. Ezr 4:9. Perhaps the same as the Dahi spoken of by Herodotus, from the east of the Caspian Sea.
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Smith
De'havites,
mentioned only once in Scripture,
among the colonists planted in Samaria after the completion of the captivity of Israel. They are probably the Dai or Dahi, mentioned by Herodotus (i. 125) among the nomadic tribes of Persia.