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.
City
Aphek
- Name means
- Aphekah, Aphik, strength; a rapid torrent
- Today
- http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/lebanon/map/m1170262/hamul.html
- Location
- 34.066°N, 35.866°E
- Mentioned
- 2 verses
About Aphek
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Nearby
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Places: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0), with locations from OpenBible.info. Many ancient sites are uncertain.