Aphekah
Where it is
No coordinates are recorded for this place.
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About this place
Aphekah is named once, among the towns of Judah “In the hill country” (Joshua 15:48): “Arab, Dumah, Eshan, Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah, Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages” (Joshua 15:52–54). It lay in the hills of Judah, in the same group of towns as Hebron. Its site is not known for certain.
It is not the Aphek on the coastal plain where the Philistines camped before their battles with Israel (1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 29:1).
Article: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · corrected by Gospel Companion from the verses
Every mention
1 reference, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Joshua 1 mention
What the dictionary says
(strong place), a city of Judah, in the mountains (Joshua 15:53) probably the same as APHEK, 1.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · Joshua 15:53's Aphekah is a town in Judah's hill country near Hebron, not the Aphek where the Philistines camped