Achzib
- In Judah, in the shephelah or plain country of Judah on the western borderland toward the Philistines and the sea; the Chezib of Gen 38:5; Jos 15:44; Mic 1:14, where the meaning of the name ("a lie") is alluded to.
- In Asher, but, like Accho and Sidon, never wrested from the aboriginal Phoenicians (Jdg 1:31). Ten miles N. of Acre, on the Mediterranean; considered on the return from Babylon the northernmost boundary of the Holy Land. Now Es-zib.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Achzib
Achzib ak'-zib ('akhzibh, "lying" or "disappointing"): The name of two towns in Palestine: (1) A town in western Judah in the lowlands, mentioned in connection with Mareshah and Keilah as one of the cities allotted to Judah (Jos 15:44), and in Mic (Jos 1:14), where it suggests play upon its meaning, "deceptive" or "failing," possibly the place having received its name from a winter spring or brook, which failed in summer. It is also called Chezib (kezibh (Ge 38:5)), where Judah was at the time of the birth of his son Shelah. In 1 Ch 4:22 it is called Cozeba, the King James Version "Chozeba" (kozebha'), clearly seen to be the same as Achzib, from the places with which it is grouped. (2) It has been identified with the modern `Ayin-Kezbeh in the valley of Elah, and north of Adullam. ⇒See a list of verses on ACHZIB in the Bible. Edward Mack (3) Mod Zib Septuagint variously: Jos 19:29, Codex Vaticanus, Echozob, Codex Alexandrinus, Achzeiph; Jg 1:31, Codex Vaticanus, Aschazei, Codex Alexandrinus, Aschendei, Greek Ecdippa: A small town some miles north of Acre on the coast. It is mentioned…
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Achzib
1. One of the 22 towns of Asher (.los VJ-' B ExoCii^, A "AxC^'Vi '1 Jg 1" " 'AirxaC*'. A 'Airx'i'Sfi). It is identified as Kz-Zib on the coast between Acre and Tyre, near where the level line of sand is broken by the promontory of Ras- en-Naknrah. The present village — a mere huddle of glaring huts on one of the highest eminences of the sanily sciv-wall — has nothing to indicate that it w:us once a place of some note. It is mentioned in Jg 1*' among the towns and districts that Israel failed to concjuer. A. was called Aksibi by the Assyr., and licdippa by the Greeks and Romans. Jo.sephus anil .Jerome refer to it. The Rabbin, writers, hedging the Land as they did the Hook, marked out three districts, indicated by A., Antioch, and Mesopotamia. They inclined to the view that A. was on the outside of the first boundary line. All within w;i.s Holy Land, where bread, wine, and oil could be found ceremonially clean, and where the dates of the months and their fa.st.s could be accurately known in time for ob.servance. 2. Anoilur Achzib (B K«Cei'/9, A omits), situated in the Shephelah or 'low…
Smith's Bible Dictionary on Achzib
(lying, false). A city in the lowlands of Judah, named with Keilah and Mareshah. (Joshua 15:44; Micah 1:14) It is probably the same with Chezib and Chozeba, which see. A town belonging to Asher, (Joshua 19:29) from which the Canaanites were not expelled, (Judges 1:31) afterwards Ecdippa. It is now es-Zib, on the seashore, 2h. 20m. north of Acre.
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