Phoros

fo'-ros (Phoros; Codex Vaticanus (Swete) Phares (1 Esdras 8:30, where the King James Version Pharez)): Name of one of the families, part of whom went up from the exile with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:9) and part with Ezra (8:30 the Revised Version (British and American)) = "Parosh" of Ezr 2:3; 8:3, and some members of which had taken "strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:26).

⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.