Aczib — Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

1. City in Judah’s territory (Jos 15:44). The prophet Micah listed it among cities that would be destroyed with Samaria (Mi 1:14). It was probably the same as Chezib (Gn 38:5) and Cozeba (1 Chr 4:22).

Show passage in OET: JOS 15:44

OET-RV JOS 15:44

44 Ke’ilah, Akziv, and Mareshah—nine cities as well as their villages.

OET-LV JOS 15:44

44 And_Qəˊīlāh and_ʼAkzīⱱ and_Marʼēshāh cities nine and_villages _of_their.

Show passage in OET: MIC 1:14

OET-RV MIC 1:14

14 So you’ll give parting gifts to Moreshet -Gat.
⇔ The town of Akziv will deceive Yisrael’s kings.

OET-LV MIC 1:14

14 For_so/thus/hence you _will _give parting _gifts to Mōreshet Gat the _houses _of ʼAkzīⱱ will_become_(into)_a _deceitful _thing to_the _kings _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel).

Show passage in OET: GEN 38:5

OET-RV GEN 38:5

5 Then she got pregnant yet again and gave birth to a third son, and she named him Shela. (Yehudah was in Keziv when she Onan was born.)

OET-LV GEN 38:5

5 And_she/it _added again and_she/it _gave _birth a _son and_she/it _called/named DOM his/its_name Shēlāh and_it _was in_Kezib when_bore_she DOM_him/it.

Show passage in OET: CH1 4:22

OET-RV CH1 4:22

22 Yokim and the men of Kozava, and Yoash and Saraf, who ruled in Moav (Moab) and Yashuvi-Lehem. (All that is from ancient records.)

OET-LV CH1 4:22

22 And_Yōqīm/(Jokim) and_the _men _of Kozāⱱāʼ/(Cozeba) and_Yōʼāsh/(Joash) and_Sārāf who they _ruled to_Mōʼāⱱ and_returned _to _Leḩem returned _to _Leḩem and_the_words/messages are_ancient.

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2. City in Asher’s territory (Jos 19:29), one of seven from which the tribe failed to drive out the Canaanite inhabitants (Jgs 1:31). Recent excavations at Aczib (modern ez-Zib) show that the town was occupied almost continuously from the ninth to the third centuries BC.