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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical

i. 31 it is
                |              | probably     |   | rendered Aphik.
                |              | same as      |   |
                |              | Aphek (3)    |   |
                |              |              |   |
=APHEK= (3)     |Josh. xiii. 4 |_Afka_ (?)    |-- |Probably ‘Afka’ on the
                |              |              |   | north-west slope of
                |              |              |   | Lebanon--perhaps the
                |              |              |   | same as (2).
                |              |              |   |
=APHEK= (4)     |1 Sam. iv. 1  |_Not          |14 |Possibly the present
                |              | identified_  |   | ruin of ‘Belled el
                |              |              |   | Foka’ = Upper town,
                |              |              |   | near Gath. (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | III. 109; Sh. XVII.)
                |              |              |   |
=APHEK= (5)     |1 Sam. xxix. 1|_Fukûʾa_ (??)*|10 |Possibly the modern
                |              |              |   | village ‘Fukûʾa’ on
                |              |              |   | ‘Gilboa,’ in Issachar.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ II. 84; Sh.
                |              |              |   | IX.)--Conder.
                |              |              |   |
=APHEK= (6)     |1 Kings xx.   |_Fîk_         | 7 |A walled city in the
                | 26, 30; 2    |              |   | Mishor, east of the
                | Kings xiii.  |              |   | Jordan; believed to
                | 17           |              |   | be the village ‘Fîk,’
                |              |              |   | east of the Sea of
                |              |              |   | Galilee, on the
                |              |              |   | highway to Damascus.
                |              |              |   |
=APHEKAH=       |Josh. xv. 53  |_Not          |-- |In the mountains of
                |              | identified_--|   | Judah, (?) the same
                |              | perhaps same |   | place as that of Josh.
                |              | as _Aphek_   |   | xii. 18.
                |              | (1)          |   |
                |              |              |   |
=APHEREMA=      |1 Macc. xi. 34|_Ephraim_     |-- |Probably the same
                |              |              |   | as Ephraim (Ophrah
                |              |              |   | Taiyibeh), which see.
                |              |              |   |
=APHIK=         |Judg. i. 31   |Same as       |-- |
                |              | _Aphek_ (2)  |   |
                |              |              |   |
=APHRAH= (R.V.  |Micah i. 10   |_Not          |-- |Probably in the low
 =BETH-APHRAH=) |              | identified_  |   | country of Judah.
                |              |              |   | Supposed by some to be

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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