בֶּזֶקBezeq
proper name [of a location]: rendezvous of Israel under Saul and Samuel, home of Adoni-bezek (1 Samuel 11:8; Judges 1:4; Judges 1:5)
Pronunciation: beh'-zak · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H966
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Judges 1:4 When the men of Judah attacked, the Lord gave them victory over the Canaanites and Perizzites, and they killed 10,000 enemy warriors at the town of Bezek.
- Judges 1:5 While at Bezek they encountered King Adoni-bezek and fought against him, and the Canaanites and Perizzites were defeated.
- 1 Samuel 11:8 When Saul mobilized them at Bezek, he found that there were 300,000 men from Israel and 30,000 men from Judah.
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).