1. 1Ch_4:18. Heber was "father," founder, or colonist of Socho in the low hill region of Judah. Now Shuweikeh, in the western part of the low hills of Judah, on the southern slope of the wady Sumt, nearly half a mile above the bed of the wady, a natural terrace, green in spring, dotted with grey ruins. SOCHOH in 1Ki_4:10. SOCOH in Jos_15:35. Between Socho and Azekah the Philistines were posted for the battle wherein Goliath fell (1Sa_17:1). Rehoboam fortified it after the disruption (2Ch_11:7). Taken by the Philistines in Ahaz' reign (2Ch_28:18).
2. Also in Judah; now Shuweibeh (Jos_15:48), ten miles S.W. of Hebron.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
So'cho. (bushy). 1Ch_4:18 . Probably one of the towns called Socoh, in Judah, though which of the two cannot be ascertained. See Socoh.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
sō?kō: Occurs in 1Ch_4:18, the Revised Version (British and American) ?Soco.? See SOCOH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Soko', שׂוֹבוֹ, for]שׂוֹבוֹ, bushy; Sept. Σωχών; Vulg. Socho), the name of a town, which occurs in this form, among those settled by the sons of Ezra of the tribe of Judah (1Ch_4:18). It apparently was the same as the town of SOCOH SEE SOCOH (q.v.), in Judah, probably the one in the lowland, which was better known than the other, and in the vicinity of the associated places. It appears from its mention in this list that it was colonized by a man or a place named Heber. The Targum, playing on the passage after the custom of Hebrew writers, interprets it as referring to Moses, and takes the names Jered, Soco, Jekuthiel, as titles of him. He was the rabba of Soco because he sheltered (סכ)ִ the house of Israel with his virtue.' SEE SHOCO; SEE SHOCHO.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.