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Barkos

Man living at the time of Exile and Return

Barkos was the ancestor of a family of temple servants who returned from Babylonian captivity.

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Barkos is mentioned in Ezr.2.53 and Neh.7.55 as the ancestor of a family of temple servants (Nethinim) who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile. The temple servants were a group of people assigned to assist the Levites in the maintenance and service of the temple. The lists in Ezra and Nehemiah record the names of the families who returned to Judah to resettle and rebuild the temple.

Bible dictionary

Barkos Easton Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Painter, (Ezra 2:53; Neh. 7:55). The father of some of the Nethinim.

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Barkos Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(painted). “Children of Barkos” were among the Nethinim who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55) (B.C. 536.)

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Barkos Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

BAR'KOS (painter), the father of some of the returning Nethinim. Ezr 2:53; Neh 7:55.

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Barkos Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

BAR'KOS (painter), the father of some of the returning Nethinim. Ezr 2:53; Neh 7:55.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Barkos appears

2 verses in 2 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H1302

Ezra1
Nehemiah1

Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.