BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5658
av.don — Abdon
Abdon = "servile" a city in Asher allotted to the Gershonite Levites; located 10 miles (16 km) north of Accho; modern 'Abdeh' Also named: ev.ron (עֶבְרֹן "Ebron" H5683)
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5910
ak.ko — Acco
Accho = "his straitness" a seaport town in Asher north of Mount Carmel and south or Tyre Also named: Ptolemais (Πτολεμαΐς "Ptolemais" G4424)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Sultry or sandy, a town and harbour of Phoenicia, in the tribe of Asher, but never acquired by them (Judg. 1:31). It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans by the name of Ptolemais, from Ptolemy the king of Egypt, who rebuilt it about B.C. 100. Here Paul landed on his last journey to Jerusalem (Acts 21:7). During the crusades of the Middle Ages it was called Acra; and subsequently, on account of its being occupied by the Knights Hospitallers of Jerusalem, it was called St. Jean d’Acre, or simply Acre.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
