Achzib standard
udah (Jos 15:44), and in Mic (1:14), where it suggests play upon its meaning, "deceptive" or "failing," possibly the place having received its name from a winter spring or brook, which failed in summer.
Where is Achzib in the Bible?
Achzib was a town located in Judah's Shephelah region, the fertile foothills between the coastal plain and the Judean highlands. It appears in several biblical passages, including Genesis 38:5, where Judah was present at the birth of his son Shelah, and in Joshua 15:44 as part of Judah's territorial allocation. The prophet Micah also mentions Achzib in Micah 1:14, using a wordplay on its name meaning "deceptive" or "failing," possibly derived from a seasonal spring or brook that dried up in summer. The town is also referred to as Chezib and Cozeba in different biblical accounts, making it an important settlement in Judah's inheritance during the Old Testament period.
In Scripture3 biblical books; 3 with study content
- Genesis
- Joshua
- Micah
Achzib
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)udah (Jos 15:44), and in Mic (1:14), where it suggests play upon its meaning, "deceptive" or "failing," possibly the place having received its name from a winter spring or brook, which failed in summer. It is also called Chezib (kezibh (Ge 38:5)), where Judah was at the time of the birth of his son Shelah. In 1Ch 4:22 it is called Cozeba, the King James Version "Chozeba" (kozebha'), clearly seen to be the same as Achzib, from the places with which it is grouped.
(2) It has been identified with the modern `Ayin-Kezbeh in the valley of Elah, and north of Adullam.
Edward Mack
(3) Mod Zib Septuagint variously: Jos 19:29, Codex Vaticanus, Echozob, Codex Alexandrinus, Achzeiph; Jud 1:31, Codex Vaticanus, Aschazei, Codex Alexandrinus, Aschendei, Greek Ecdippa: A small town some miles north of Acre on the coast. It is mentioned in Jos 19:29 as falling within the possessions of the tribe of Asher, but they never occupied it, as they did not the neighboring Acre (Acco). The Phoenician inhabitants of the coast were too strongly entrenched to be driven out by a people who had no fleet. The cities on the coast doubtless aided one another, and Sidon had become rich and powerful before this and could succor such a small town in case of attack. Achzib was a coast town, nine miles north of Acco, now known as Ez-Zib. It appears in the Assyrian inscriptions as Aksibi and Sennacherib enumerates it among the Phoenician towns that he took at the same times as Acco (702 BC). It was never important and is now an insignificant village among the sand dunes of the coast. It was the bordertown of Galilee on the west, what lay beyond being unholy ground.
H. Porter
as'-i-fa. See ACHIPHA.
as'-i-tho (variant of AHITUB): The name in the King James Version of an ancest