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( Âáñ÷ïõÝ ; Vulg. Barcus), given (1Es_5:32) as one of the heads of the Temple servants that returned from Babylon; a corruption for Barkos (q.v.) in the lists of Ezra (Ezr_2:53) and Nehemiah (Neh_7:55), possibly by a change of á into ë . But it does not appear whence the translators of the A. V. got their reading of the name. In the edition of 1611 it is "Chareus."