עֶקְרוֹן
Ekron
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ekron’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6138 appears in the Book of Amos — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
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About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עקרון (ʻEqrôwn) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Ekron.” Debuting at Joshua 13:3, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 20 verses — uncommon. Joshua dominates its distribution — 5 of 20 verses. For the data behind this summary, explore 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6138 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,412
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,412 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 20 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ekron 20×
- American Standard Version: Ekron 19×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ekron 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ekron 22×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6138 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6138 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6138 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6138 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ekron = "emigration" or " torn up by the roots"
- the most northerly of the 5 principal cities of the Philistines; located in the lowlands of Judah and later given to Dan
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Eḳrȏn, Ακκαρων (in Assyrian Amḳarruna COTGloss., DlPa 289 who proposes עַקָּרוֹן);—Philistine city, one of the famous five, Am 1:8; Jos 13:3 (D) + 4 times Jos (P), Ju 1:8 1 S 5:10(×2) + 5 times 1 S; 2 K 1:2, 3, 6, 16; Je 25:20; Zp 2:4; Zc 9:5, 7; mod. ʿÁkir RobBR i. 227 ff. GASmGeogr. 193 BuhlGeogr. 187 f.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עקר (ʻâqar) (H6131) — to pluck up.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H6138 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/עֶקְר֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Zechariah 9:5 | 3 |
| עֶקְר֑וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 5:10 | 3 |
| עֶקְר֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 5:10 | 3 |
| עֶקְר֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 6:16 | 2 |
| עֶקְרֽוֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 17:52 | 2 |
| וְ/עֶקְרֽוֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:43 | 1 |
| לְ/עֶקְר֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 6:17 | 1 |
| מֵ/עֶקְר֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:46 | 1 |
| מֵ/עֶקְר֣וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 7:14 | 1 |
| עֶקְר֗וֹן | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:8 | 1 |
| עֶקְר֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:45 | 1 |
| עֶקְרוֹן֒ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 1:16 | 1 |
| עֶקְרוֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 13:3 | 1 |
| עֶקְרוֹן֮ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6138, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ekron). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Firm-rooted, the most northerly of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, about 11 miles north of Gath. It was assigned to Judah (Josh. 13:3), and afterwards to Dan (19:43), but came again into the full possession of the Philistines (1 Sam. 5:10). It was the last place to which the Philistines carried the ark before they sent it back to Israel (1 Sam. 5:10; 6:1-8). There was here a noted sanctuary of Baal-zebub (2 Kings 1: 2, 3, 6, 16). Now the small village Akir. It is mentioned on monuments in B.C. 702, when Sennacherib set free its king, imprisoned by Hezekiah in Jerusalem, according to the Assyrian record.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(torn up by the roots; emigration), one of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, and the most northerly of the five. (Joshua 13:3) Like the other Philistine cities its situation was in the lowlands. It fell to the lot of Judah. (Joshua 15:45,46; Judges 1:18) Afterwards we find it mentioned among the cities of Dan. (Joshua 19:43) Before the monarchy it was again in full possession of the Philistines. (1 Samuel 5:10) Akir, the modern representative of Ekron, lies about five miles southwest of Ramleh . In the Apocrypha it appears as Accaron. 1Macc 10:89 only.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
barrenness; torn away
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 19 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Joshua 13:3
- Judges 1:18
- 1 Samuel 5:10
- 2 Kings 1:2
- Jeremiah 25:20
- Amos 1:8
- Zephaniah 2:4
- Zechariah 9:5
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
