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(Heb. Barkos', áִּøְ÷åֹñ prob. for áֶּïàּøְ÷åֹñ , painter; Sept. Âáñêüò , ÂáñêïõÝ ), the head of one of the families of Nethinim that returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezr_2:53; Neh_7:55). B.C. ante 536. Schwarz, however, regards it as the name of a place, identical with the modern village Berkusia, six miles north-west of Beit-Jebrin (Palestine, p. 116).