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# אֲפֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H663

**Aphek** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Aphek [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/663/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲפֵק: n.pr.loc. Aphek [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/663/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Ju 1:31) n.pr.loc. Aphek (perhaps enclosure, or fortress). city near Jezreel (Assyrian Apḳu, cf. DlPa 287) Jos 12:18 1 S 29:1 (אֲפֵ֑קָה, so) 1 K 20:26, 30 cf. 2 K 13:17. city in tribe of Asher Jos 19:30 Ju 1:31 (אֲפִיק). city NE. of Beirût, mod. Afqa Jos 13:4 אֲכֵּ֑קָה v. Di. place near Mizpah 1 S 4:1 (cf. 7:12). Jos 12:18; 1 S 4:1; 29:1 and 2 K 13:22 𝔊L; town not near Jezreel but at N. end of Philistine plain; cf. 𝔊Ll.c. WeComp 254 Dr 1 S 29:11 RSOTJC 2, 435 GASmGeogr. 400 f. BuhlGeogr. 212 (and N.) BuRS 235 f.; more doubtful are 1 K 20:26, 30; 2 K 13:17 (Kit 1 K 20:26); these, with Jos 19:30 Ju 1:31, might denote an Apheḳ near Jezreel.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Aphek (4); to (4); of Aphek (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.18/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ אֲפֵק֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ לַשָּׁר֖וֹן אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Aphek one \[the\].king of (the) Sharon one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Aphek, one; the king of the Sharon, one;

[Joshua 19:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.30/#tree)

וְעֻמָ֥ה וַאֲפֵ֖ק וּרְחֹ֑ב עָרִ֛ים עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁתַּ֖יִם וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Umah and Aphek and Rehob cities twenty and two and villages their

*JPS 1917:* Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob; twenty and two cities with their villages.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/663.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/663/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).