Ekron: meaning of the name

Ekron in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Ekron

• Ekron

Ekron in Scripture

“Ekron” appears in 20 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Joshua 13:3

  From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:

• Joshua 15:11

  And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

• Joshua 15:45

  Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

• Joshua 15:46

  From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:

• Joshua 19:43

  And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,

• Judges 1:18

  Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

• 1 Samuel 5:10

  Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

• 1 Samuel 6:16

  And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.