Lexical Summary Eqron: a Philistine city Original Word: עֶקְרוֹןTransliteration: Eqron Phonetic Spelling: (ek-rone') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a Philistine city Meaning: Ekron -- a Philistine city Strong's Concordance Ekron From aqar; eradication; Ekron, a place in Palestine -- Ekron. see HEBREW aqar Brown-Driver-Briggs H6138. Eqron עֶקְרוֺן22 proper name, of a location Ekrôn, Ακκαρων (in Assyrian Am‡arruna COTGlossary, DlPa 289 who proposes עַקָּרוֺן ); — Philistine city, one of the famous five, Amos 1:8; Joshua 13:3 (D) + 4 t. Joshua (P), Judges 1:18; 1 Samuel 5:10 (twice in verse) + 5 t. 1Samuel; 2 Kings 1:2-3, 6, 16; Jeremiah 25:20; Zephaniah 2:4; Zechariah 9:5, 7; modern `Âkir RobBR i. 227 ff. GASmGeogr.198 BuhlGeogr.187 f. |