Strong's #663: 'Apheq (pronounced af-ake')

or rAphiyq {af-eek'}; from 662 (in the sense of strength); fortress; Aphek (or Aphik), the name of three places in Palestine:--Aphek, Aphik.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ăphêq / 'ăphı̂yq

Aphek or Aphik = "enclosure"

1) a Canaanite city near Jezreel

2) a city in territory of Asher

3) a city northeast of Beirut in Transjordan

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H662 (in the sense of strength)

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Joshua 12:18: "The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;"
Joshua 13:4: "and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:"
Joshua 19:30: "Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages."
Judges 1:31: "nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:"
1 Samuel 4:1: "Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek."
1 Samuel 29:1: "all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which"
1 Kings 20:26: "the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel."
1 Kings 20:30: "But the rest to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon"
2 Kings 13:17: "for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed"