Toponym Bezek in the world's Bibles
Meaning of the name: lightning; in the chains. Related names are: Judah, Perizzites, Israel, and Adoni-Bezek. The translations of Bezek in 4 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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below, from Blen in Spanish to בזק in Hebrew!
Wear it!And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. (JDG 1:4)
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. (JDG 1:5)
And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. (1SA 11:8)