Strong's #6138: `Eqrown (pronounced ek-rone')

from 6131; eradication; Ekron, a place in Palestine:--Ekron.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛eqrôn

Ekron = "emigration" or "torn up by the roots"

1) the most northerly of the 5 principal cities of the Philistines; located in the lowlands of Judah and later given to Dan

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H6131

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Joshua 13:3: "is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite:"
Joshua 15:11: "went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron,"
Joshua 15:45: " Ekron, with her towns and her villages:"
Joshua 15:46: " From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod,"
Joshua 19:43: "And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,"
Judges 1:18: "the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast"
1 Samuel 5:10: "the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came"
1 Samuel 5:10: "as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about"
1 Samuel 6:16: "of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day."
1 Samuel 6:17: "one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;"
1 Samuel 7:14: "from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath;"
1 Samuel 17:52: "to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way"
1 Samuel 17:52: "even unto Gath, and unto Ekron."
2 Kings 1:2: "inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease."
2 Kings 1:3: "go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?"
2 Kings 1:6: "sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down"
2 Kings 1:16: "messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no"
Jeremiah 25:20: "of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,"
Amos 1:8: "from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines"
Zephaniah 2:4: "they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up."
Zechariah 9:5: "it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed;"
Zechariah 9:7: "he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite."