What is Aphek in the Bible?
Situated near the headwaters of the Yarqon River, the city is the most significant of several places called Aphek (Hebrew, ʾafik, “riverbed”) in the Hebrew Bible. … Conquered by Joshua (Joshua 12:18), it became a Philistine stronghold in the period of the Judges. What is the meaning of the name Aphek? In Biblical Names the…