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# עֶקְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6138

**Ekron** — used 22 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

Ekron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6138/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶקְרוֹן: n.pr.loc. Eḳrȏn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6138/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Eḳrȏn, Ακκαρων (in Assyrian Amḳarruna COTGloss., DlPa 289 who proposes עַקָּרוֹן);—Philistine city, one of the famous five, Am 1:8; Jos 13:3 (D) + 4 times Jos (P), Ju 1:8 1 S 5:10(×2) + 5 times 1 S; 2 K 1:2, 3, 6, 16; Je 25:20; Zp 2:4; Zc 9:5, 7; mod. ʿÁkir RobBR i. 227 ff. GASmGeogr. 193 BuhlGeogr. 187 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 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: Ekron (16); of Ekron (6).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.45/#tree)

עֶקְר֥וֹן וּבְנֹתֶ֖יהָ וַחֲצֵרֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* Ekron and daughters its and villages its

*JPS 1917:* Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

[Joshua 19:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.43/#tree)

וְאֵיל֥וֹן וְתִמְנָ֖תָה וְעֶקְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Elon and (to) Timnah and Ekron

*JPS 1917:* and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6138/): 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).