Arpad (Old Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡐𐡃, romanized: ʾRPD; Biblical Hebrew: אַרְפַּד, romanized: ʾArpaḏ or אַרְפָּד, ʾArpāḏ;[1] modern Tell Rifaat, Syria) was an ancient Aramaean Syro-Hittite city located in north-western Syria, north of Aleppo.

It became the capital of the Aramaean state of Bit Agusi established by Gusi of Yakhan in the 9th century BC.

In 743 BC, during the Urartu-Assyria War, the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III laid siege to Arpad following the defeat of the Urartuan army of Sarduri II at Samsat.

It took Tiglath-Pileser three years of siege to conquer Arpad, whereupon he massacred its inhabitants and destroyed the city.

[8] The word Arpad in Hebrew means 'the light of redemption',[9] or 'I shall be spread out (or: supported)'[10] Tel Rifaat is an oval 250 by 233 meters.