Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5825
עֲזֵקָה
a.ze.qah · “Azekah”
Used 7 times across 5 books
Definition
§ Azekah = "dug over"
a town in the lowlands of Judah
Where it appears
Joshua3
1 Samuel1
2 Chronicles1
Nehemiah1
Jeremiah1
In the text
Joshua 10:10And 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 Beth–horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth–horon, 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 Ephes–dammim.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 Beer–sheba 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.
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