Tartak

Tartak in the Topics

Prince of darkness, one of the gods of the Arvites, who colonized part of Samaria after the deportation of Israel by Shalmaneser (2 Kgs 17:31).

Named in the Bible

1 verse

  • 2 Kings 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.