HebrewH5825Noun

עֲזֵקָה

a.ze.qah

7Occurrences
H5825Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Azekah, a place in Palestine

from H5823 (עָזַק); tilled;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Azekah = "dug over" a town in the lowlands of Judah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עֲזֵקָה appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
3
1 Samuel
1
2 Chronicles
1
Jeremiah
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 17:1BSB

Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war at Socoh in Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.

2 Chronicles 11:9BSB

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

Jeremiah 34:7BSB

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.

Joshua 10:10BSB

And 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 10:11BSB

As 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.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.