Strong’s
H6139Proper name, a people or place2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Joshua 13:3וְהָעֶקְרוֹנִי
from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;
- 1 Samuel 5:10הָעֶקְרֹנִים
So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”
Brown-Driver-Briggs
עֶקְרוֹנִי adj.gent. of foregoing [p.ez.ah], c. art. = subst. the Eḳrônite
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.