ARCHEVITES är’ kə vīts (אַרְכְּוָי, H10074). People from the Babylonian city of Erech (Uruk) who with the Persians, Babylonians, Elamites, and others were transplanted by Ashurbanipal, or Osnappar, to the cities of Samaria and other parts of the province (Ezra 4:9, 10).