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Aphik

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1

(Judg 1:31); Aphek (Josh 13:4; 19:30), stronghold.

2

A city of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple, “magnificent ruins” in a “spot of strange wildness and beauty”, are still seen at Afka, on the north-west slopes of Lebanon, near the source of the river Adonis (now Nahr Ibrahim), 12 miles east of Gebal.

3

A city of the tribe of Issachar, near to Jezreel (1 Sam 4:1; 29:1; comp. 28:4).

4

A town on the road from Damascus to Palestine, in the level plain east of Jordan, near which Benhadad was defeated by the Israelites (1 Kgs 20:26, 30; 2 Kgs 13:17). It has been identified with the modern Fik, 6 miles east of the Sea of Galilee, opposite Tiberias.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a'-fik: Variant of Aphek (which see).

See also

Place Aphek (Jos 19,30) Place Aphek (Jos 12,18) Place Aphek (1 Kgs 20,26) Place Aphik (Dom 1,31)

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