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(Heb. Arki', àִøְëִּé ; Sept. combines with the following word, Á᾿ñ÷éáôáñώè ; Vulg. Archi Ataroth; but the Hebrews has no connective between the words, where the Auth. Vers. has prob. supplied the best relation “to”), a city or place on the boundary of Benjamin and Ephraim, between Bethel and Ataroth (Jos_16:2); supposed by some to be the region of Beni-Zeid (Keil, Comment. in loc.), which, however, is too far north SEE ATAROTH, and rather to be sought in the valley west of Bethel, perhaps at the ruined site called Kefr Musr. SEE TRIBE. It appears to designate (collectively used) a clan inhabiting a district called Erech (different, of course, from that in Babylonia, Gen_10:10), elsewhere named only as the residence of Hushai the Archite (Heb. Arki', àֲøְëִּé , Sept. Á᾿ñ÷ß v. r. Á᾿ñá÷ß ), one of those who adhered to David during Absalom's rebellion (2Sa_15:32; 2Sa_16:16). SEE ARCHITE.
Archi
This place has, with great probability, been identified with the present in Ar Ak, a small modern village with a Greek Church adjoining, laid down on the Ordnance map four and one eighth miles west of ElBireh (Conder, Tent Work, ii, 104; Tristram, Bible Places, p. 176).