1. Aphek (place name) — A Canaanite place name (אֲפֵק / אֲפִיק), meaning perhaps 'enclosure' or 'fortress,' applied to several cities in the land of Israel. The name appears with various spellings: Aphek (Josh 12:18, 1 Sam 29:1), Aphekah (Josh 13:4 in the hill country of Judah), Afeqah (1 Kgs 20:26, 20:30 near the Golan), and Afik (Judg 1:31, the Asherite city). All forms refer to fortified Canaanite sites, and the different spellings (with or without he locale suffix -ah) and prepositional prefixes (בַאֲפֵק 'in Aphek,' וַאֲפֵק 'and Aphek') are purely orthographic and grammatical variants of the same toponym. Glosses across all languages consistently transliterate the name: arb أَفيق, deu Aphek, spa Afec, kor 아벡/아벡. 9×
AR["أفيق","أَفيقةَ","أَفيقَ","فِي-أَفِيق","فِي-أَفِيقَ","وَ-أَفِيقُ"]·ben["অফীককে","অফেক","অফেকে","অফেকের","আফেকে","এবং-অফেক"]·DE["Afeqah","Afik","Aphek","Aphekah","in-Aphek","in-Apheq","und-Apheq"]·EN["Afeqah","Afik","Aphek","Aphekah","and-Apheq","in-Aphek","in-Apheq"]·FR["Afeqah","Afik","Aphek","Aphekah","dans-Aphek","dans-Apheq","et-Apheq"]·heb["אפיק","אפק","אפקה","ב-אפק","ו-אפק"]·HI["अपीक-के","अपेक","अपेका","अफेक-मेइन","और-अपेक","बअफेक-में","में-अफेक"]·ID["Afek","Afik","dan-Afek","di-Afek","ke-Afek"]·IT["Afeqah","Afik","Aphek","Aphekah","e-Apheq","in-Aphek","in-Apheq"]·jav["Afik","Afèk","ing-Afèk","lan-Afèk","wonten-ing-Afék"]·KO["그리고-아벩","아방","아방으로","아벡-에서","아벡까지","아벡의","아벩으로","아벵-에서","아빅을"]·PT["'Afeq","'Afeq-a","'Afiq","Afeqah","e-Afeq","em-'Afeq","em-Afeq"]·RU["Афек","Афека","Афеки","Афика","в-Афек","в-Афеке","и-Афек"]·ES["Afec","Afik","a-Afec","en-Afec","y-Afec"]·SW["Afeka","Afeki","Afiki","katika-Afeki","na-Afeki"]·TR["-Afek-te","Afek","Afek'e","Afek'in","Afek'te","Afik","ve-Afek"]·urd["افیق","افیق-میں","افیق-کا","افیقہ","اور-افیق","میں-افیق"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֲפֵק, אֲפִיק (Ju 1:31) n.pr.loc. Aphek (perhaps enclosure, or fortress). 1. 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. 2. city in tribe of Asher Jos 19:30 Ju 1:31 (אֲפִיק). 3. city NE. of Beirût, mod. Afqa Jos 13:4 אֲכֵּ֑קָה v. Di. 4. 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…