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occurs only in Dan_3:2-3, as a rendering; in the A.V. of the Chald. úַּôְúִּé , tiphtay (according to Fürst “a derivation from the old Persic atipaiti= supreme master [Stern Monatsnamen, p. 196 ];” Sept. ἐð᾿ ἐîïõóéώí ; Vulg. proefectus) one of the classes of court officials at Babylon, probably lawyers or jurists, like the present Mohammedan mufti, who decides points of laws in the Turkish courts.