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    2 others in the registry answer to the name Aphek. Every Aphek in the Bible

    place · also Aphekah

    Aphek

    אֲפֵק

    Aphek or Aphekah, a city in the Shephelah, known for Philistine conflicts with Israel.

    Where the story of Aphek happens Where the gazetteer locates Aphek, framed to them: Aphek. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Aphek
    Where the gazetteer locates Aphek
    verses
    4
    first named
    Joshua 12:18
    last named
    1 Samuel 29:1
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    32.10°N · 34.93°E
    settlement32.10°N · 34.93°E

    Tell Ras el Ain (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 4 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Aphek in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Aphek, also known as Aphekah, was a city located in the Shephelah, the foothills between the coastal plain and the Judean hills. It is mentioned in Joshua 12:18 as one of the cities defeated by Joshua during the conquest of Canaan. Later, Aphek was part of the territory allotted to the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:53).

    The city is most notably associated with the conflicts between the Israelites and the Philistines. In 1Sa.4.1, the Israelites camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek. The Philistines defeated the Israelites in battle and captured the Ark of the Covenant. Years later, during the reign of King Saul, the Philistines gathered their forces at Aphek before the fateful battle at Mount Gilboa, where Saul and his sons were killed (1Sa.29.1).

    The exact location of Aphek in the Shephelah is uncertain, but it is generally identified with Tel Aphek, a site near the Yarkon River, about 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Joppa. The city's strategic location along the coastal plain made it a significant military stronghold and a focal point of the ongoing struggles between Israel and the Philistines.

    Relations

    Direct connections

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    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Aphek is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA2 VERSES57 books and 922 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA2 VERSES57 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Aphek is named in 4 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 2 books.

    1. Joshua2 verses

      12:1815:53

    2. 1 Samuel2 verses

      4:129:1

    Onward

    Where this page goes

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    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

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    What happened here

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