Arkites

A Canaanite people listed among the descendants of Canaan in the Table of Nations and again in the Chronicler's parallel genealogy. The name appears once in each list, in the singular collective form Arkite.

In the Table of Nations

The Genesis genealogy traces Canaan from Ham and then enumerates his sons and the peoples descended from them. "And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan" (Ge 10:6). Canaan's line opens with cities and broadens into peoples: "And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite" (Ge 10:15-18a). The list closes with a notice of dispersal: "and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad" (Ge 10:18b). The Arkite stands seventh in the sequence, between the Hivite and the Sinite.

In the Chronicler's Genealogy

The opening genealogy of 1 Chronicles repeats the same sequence in compressed form. "And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite" (1 Ch 1:13-16). Order, name, and position are unchanged from Genesis 10. The Arkite belongs to the standing roll of Canaanite peoples carried forward from the Table of Nations into Israel's later genealogical record.