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par-vā´im (פּרוי×, parwaÌ„yim; Septuagint Pharouaim): The word occurs only in , as the place from which Solomon obtained gold for the decoration of his Temple. A derivation is given from the Sanskrit puÌ„rva, “eastern,†so that the name might be a vague term for the East (Gesenius, Thesaurus, 1125). Whether there was such a place in arabia is doubtful. Farwa in Yemen has been suggested, and also SaÌ„kÌ£ el Farwain in Yemamah. Some have considered the name a shortened form of SÌ£epharvaÌ„yim which occurs in the Syriac and Targum Jonathan for the “Sephar†of .