Aphik

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ā´fik (Variant of Aphek (which see)):

(Judges 1:31); Aphek (Joshus 13:4; Joshus 19:30), stronghold.

(1) A city of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple, “magnificent ruins” in a “spot of strange wildness and beauty”, are still seen at Afka, on the north-west slopes of Lebanon, near the source of the river Adonis (now Nahr Ibrahim), 12 miles east of Gebal.

(2) A city of the tribe of Issachar, near to Jezreel (1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 29:1; compare 1 Samuel 28:4).

(3)A town on the road from Damascus to Palestine, in the level plain east of Jordan, near which Benhadad was defeated by the Israelites (1 Kings 20:26, 1 Kings 20:30; 2 Kings 13:17). It has been identified with the modern Fik, 6 miles east of the Sea of Galilee, opposite Tiberias.