צִקְלַגTsiqlag

Tsiklag or Tsikelag, a place in Palestine

Pronunciation: tsik-lag' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6860

Meanings

proper name [of a location]: assigned to Judah, Philistine city given to David (1 Chronicles 12:1; 1 Chronicles 12:21; 1 Samuel 27:6; 2 Samuel 2:1; Joshua 15:31)

Where it appears

Appears 15 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 15:31 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
  • Joshua 19:5 Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,
  • 1 Samuel 27:6 So Achish gave him the town of Ziklag (which still belongs to the kings of Judah to this day),
  • 1 Samuel 30:1 Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground.
  • 1 Samuel 30:14 We were on our way back from raiding the Kerethites in the Negev, the territory of Judah, and the land of Caleb, and we had just burned Ziklag.”
  • 1 Samuel 30:26 When he arrived at Ziklag, David sent part of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends. “Here is a present for you, taken from the Lord’s enemies,” he said.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).