EKREBEL (Jdt_7:18).Apparently the town of Akrabeh, E. of Shechem, the capital of Akrabattine.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ek?rē̇-bel (Ἐκρεβήλ, Ekrebḗl): Appears only in Judith 7:18. It lay on the brook Mochmur, South of Dothart. It is identical with Akrabbein, of which Eusebius (Onomasticon) speaks as the capital of the district of Akrabattine. It corresponds to the modern ‛Akrabeh, 8 miles Southeast of Nāblus.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ekrebel
(Ε᾿κρεβήλ; Pesh. Ecrabat; Vulg. omits), a place named in Jdt_7:18 only, as "near to Chusi, which is on the brook Mochmur," apparently somewhere in the hill country to the south-east of the Plain of Esdraelon and of Dothain. The Syriac reading of the word points to the place Acrabbein, mentioned Ly Eusebius in the Onomasticon as the capital of a district called Acrabatine, and still standing as Akrabah, about six miles south-east of Nablus (Shechem), in the Wady Makfuriyeh, on the road to the Jordan valley (Van de Velde, 2:304, and Map). Though frequently mentioned by Josephus (War, 2:20, 4; 3:3, 5, etc.), neither the place nor the district are named in the Bible, and they must not be confounded with those of the same name in the south of Judah. SEE AKRABBIM; SEE ARABATTINE; SEE MAALEH-ACRABBIM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
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