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# עֲזֵקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5825

**Azekah** — used 7 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

Azekah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5825/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲזֵקָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5825/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Αζηκα, in the Shephelah of Judah, near שׂוֹכֹה, Jos 10:10, 11 (JE), 15:35 (P), 1 S 17:1; Je 34:7; 2 Ch 11:9; Ne 11:30; not identified.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Azekah (7).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.35/#tree)

יַרְמוּת֙ וַעֲדֻלָּ֔ם שׂוֹכֹ֖ה וַעֲזֵקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Jarmuth and Adullam Socoh and Azekah

*JPS 1917:* Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;

[2 Chronicles 11:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.9/#tree)

וְאֶת־אֲדוֹרַ֥יִם וְאֶת־לָכִ֖ישׁ וְאֶת־עֲזֵקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Adoraim and (et) Lachish and (et) Azekah

*JPS 1917:* and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5825.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5825/): 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).