Azekah
עֲזֵקָהStrong’s H5825azeqah (a-ze-qah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Azeqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “azekah”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.”
Meaning
- § Azekah = "dug over"
How it's translated
- azekah 6
- and azekah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
- Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
- 1 Samuel 17:1Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
- 2 Chronicles 11:9And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
- Nehemiah 11:30Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
- Jeremiah 34:7When the king of Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲזֵקָה azeqah · Azekah
§ Azekah = "dug over" a town in the lowlands of Judah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.