Afek ( he, אֲפֵק, link=no) can refer to:
Places in the biblical Land of Israel
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Aphek (biblical)
The name Aphek or Aphec refers to one or several locations mentioned by the Hebrew Bible as the scenes of a number of battles between the Israelites and the Arameans or Philistines:
*Most famously, a town near which one or more rulers of Damascu ...
refers to a number of sites with the same name mentioned in the Bible
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Aphik (Asher)
or ( he, אפיק), in the Bible, is a city in the Tribe of Asher from which the Canaanites were not driven out, identified with the Aphaca of classical times, the modern Afka, or alternatively with Tel Afek near Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵי ...
one of the biblical sites belonging to the Tribe of Asher
**Aphaca, a city in classical Syria believed by some to be the Asherite city:
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Afka
Afqa ( ar, افقا; also spelled ''Afka'') is a village and municipality located in the Byblos District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. It has an average elevation of 1,200 meters above sea level and a total la ...
, a modern town at the site in Lebanon
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Tel Afek, a site located near Haifa believed by some to be the Asherite city
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Afek, Israel, a kibbutz located at the Tel near Haifa
*Another site known as Tel Afek or
Antipatris, near Petah Tikva and Rosh HaAyin
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Migdal Afek Migdal ( he, מִגְדָּל) is a Hebrew word for tower. It may refer to:
People
* Alexander Migdal (born 1945), Soviet, Russian and American physicist, son of Arkady Migdal
* Arkady Migdal (1911–1991), Soviet physicist
* Ted Migdal (1918–1 ...
, also near Rosh HaAyin Majdal Yaba
*Aphek Turris also refers to
Majdal Yaba
*A site in the Golan Heights:
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Fiq, Syria
Fiq ( ar, فيق) was a Syrian town in the Golan Heights that administratively belonged to Quneitra Governorate. It sat at an altitude of and had a population of 2,800 in 1967. It was the administrative center of the Fiq District, the southern di ...
, a former Syrian village at the Tel
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Afik
Afik () is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the Golan Heights. It was established in 1972 close to the abandoned Syrian village of Fiq following Israel's capture and occupation of the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. I ...
, a current Israeli settlement and kibbutz at the Tel
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Fiq Airfield
Fik Airfield (also known as Pik) is an airfield in the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz Afik. The airfield is used for private aviation activity and operated by the Golan Regional Council. Fik has seen t ...
, a small civilian airfield near the settlement/kibbutz
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Afikim
Afikim () is an Israeli kibbutz affiliated with the Kibbutz Movement located in the Jordan Valley three kilometers from the Sea of Galilee. It is within the jurisdiction of the Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Ety ...
, a kibbutz in the Galilee nearby, but unrelated to the Golan Heights site
Other uses
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Afek (surname), Hebrew-language surname
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Afek (mythology) Afek is a mythic heroine in the religion of the Min peoples living in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea.Biersack 2006, pp. 176-177.
Humans were believed created in a multiple birth of the cultural heroine Afek, emerging immediately after the fir ...
, a cultural heroine in some Papuan groups' mythology
*Afek Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Genie Energy Ltd. and controls
Genie Energy Ltd.'s oil and gas exploratory project in Northern Israel, including the Golan Heights region
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Battle of Aphek
The Battle of Aphek is a biblical episode described in the First Book of Samuel of the Hebrew Bible. During this battle the Philistines defeated the Israelite army and captured the Ark of the Covenant. Among biblical scholars, the historicity of t ...
, in which the Philistines defeated the Israelite army and captured the Ark of the Covenant
See also
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Fiq (disambiguation)
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