[1] He is the twelfth name of the Genesis genealogy that traces Abraham's ancestry from Adam to Terah (cf.

Cainan is also identified as Arpachshad's son in Luke 3:36 and in the non-canonical book of Jubilees 8:1.

[3] Until Woolley's identification of Ur, Arpachshad was understood by many Jewish and Muslim scholars to be an area in northern Mesopotamia.

This led to the identification of Arpachshad with Urfa-Kasid (due to similarities in the names ארפ־כשד‎ and כשדים‎) – a land associated with the Khaldis, whom Josephus confused with the Chaldeans.

[5] If he is contemporary with Nebuchadnezzar II (named as king of the Assyrians in Judith), he might be identified with Cyaxares (r. 625–585 BC).