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Joshua 15:46
“From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
עֶקְרוֹןʻEqrôwn · ek-rone'
H6138 · Hebrew
H6138 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Ekron, a place in Palestine
- Derivation
- from H6131 (עָקַר); eradication;
- KJV renderings
- Ekron.
- Grammar
- מֵ — preposition
- עֶקְר֖וֹן — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 22 times in the Hebrew Bible.Joshua 13:3Joshua 15:11Joshua 15:45Joshua 19:43Judges 1:18
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עֶקְרוֹן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.