APHEK
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1. A city in Lebanon, assigned to the tribe of Asher, Joshua 13:4; Joshua 1:19; but not subdued, Judges 1:31. Its site may be still found in Mount Lebanon, called Aphka.
2. A city of the tribe of Issachar, in the valley of Jezreel, noted in the wars with Philistines, 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 1:29.
3. A city five miles east of the sea of Galilee, the walls of which fell upon twenty-seven thousand Syrians under Benhadad, after his defeat by the Israelites, 1 Kings 1:20-34.