עֶקְרוֹנִי
ekroni · Ekronite
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6139 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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ekroni (עֶקְרוֹנִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ekronite”.
An inhabitant of that Philistine city.
How to say it
e·kro·ni
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- From the northernmost of the five Philistine cities.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Ekronite ×1
- Ekronites ×1
Where it appears
- Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and as far as the border of Ekron to the north, it is counted as Canaanite); the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; and the Avvites
- 1 Samuel 5:10
So they sent the ark of Elohim to Ekron. And it happened, as the ark of Elohim came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have moved the ark of the Elohim of Israel around to me to put me to death and my people!”