Sepharvaim
se.phar.va.yim is a place named among Assyrian sources, its people, gods, city, and king.
The term functions as a proper place name: it is named as a source of settlers, associated with its people and gods, and identified as a city with a king in the supplied passages.
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Place named with its people, gods, city, and king · dominant
The proper noun identifies a place in 2 Kings 17:24, where the APB renders it among the places from which the king of Assyria came and says people from it were settled in Samaria. In 2 Kings 17:31 it is associated with its people and their gods; in 2 Kings 18:34 and Isaiah 36:19 it is named in questions about gods, while 2 Kings 19:13 and Isaiah 37:13 call it a city in a question about its king.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the name as "Sepharvaim." It places the name in accounts of Assyrian resettlement, people and gods associated with it, and questions concerning its gods, city, and king.