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ar´pad; ar´fad (×רפּד, 'arpaÌ„dh, “supportâ€): A city of Syria, captured frequently by the Assyrians, and finally subjugated by Tiglath-pileser III in 740 bc, after a siege of two years. It is now the ruin Tell ErfaÌ„d, 13 miles Northwest of Aleppo. Arpad is one of the conquered cities mentioned by Rabshakeh, the officer of Sennacherib, in his boast before Jerusalem (; ; ; ; the King James Version Arphad). Isaiah puts a boast about its capture in the mouth of the Assyrian king (), and Jeremiah mentions it as “confounded†because of evil tidings, in the oracle concerning Damascus (). On every occasion Arpad is mentioned with Hamath.