This is the name of the place Azekah: Judean town, site of battles and sieges.
Definition
from H5823; tilled; Azekah, a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Azekah.
Traditional renderings: Azekah.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
7 total
- Joshua 10:10עֲזֵקָ֖ה · far as AzekahAnd the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
- Joshua 10:11עֲזֵקָ֖ה · AzekahAs they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
- Joshua 15:35וַעֲזֵקָֽה׃ · AzekahJarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
- 1 Samuel 17:1עֲזֵקָ֖ה · and AzekahNow the Philistines gathered their forces for war at Socoh in Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.
- 2 Chronicles 11:9עֲזֵקָֽה׃ · AzekahAdoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
- Nehemiah 11:30עֲזֵקָ֖ה · and in AzekahZanoah, Adullam, and their villages; in Lachish and its fields; and in Azekah and its villages. So they settled from Beersheba all the way to the Valley of Hinnom.
- Jeremiah 34:7עֲזֵקָ֔ה · and Azekah…as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.