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Places of the Bible

Achzib

A town in the Shephelah · City

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Achzib, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

A town in the Shephelah, or plain country of Judah (Josh. 15:44); probably the same as Chezib of Gen. 38:5 = Ain Kezbeh.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 2 verses

Joshua: 15:44
Micah: 1:14

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.