Bible Names

Bezek: meaning of the name

Bezek means “lightning; in the chains.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Bezek in Hebrew and Greek

בֶּזֶק H966

Bezeq (beh'-zak) — Bezek, a place in Palestine

from H965 (בָּזָק); lightning;

Places named Bezek

Bezek in Scripture

“Bezek” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Judges 1:4

    And Judah went up; and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

  • Judges 1:5

    And they found Adoni–bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

  • 1 Samuel 11:8

    And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.