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Socoh (Israel : Extinct city)


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    • Khirbet ʻAbbâd (Extinct city)
    • Khirbet Shuweikeh (Extinct city)
    • Shocho (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Shochoh (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Socchoth (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Sochoh (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Soco (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Sokho (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Sokhoh (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Sokoh (Israel : Extinct city)
    • Tel Socoh (Israel : Extinct city)
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    • found: Work cat: 2017002028: Michael G. Hasel. Socoh of the Judean shephelah, 2017:ECIP chapt. 1 (Socoh located in the Elah Valley in the Judean Shephelah; a.k.a. Khirbet ʻAbbâd, Khirbet Shuweikeh or Tel Socoh)
    • found: Encyc. Judaica, 2nd ed., c2006:vol 15, col. 69 (Socoh or Soco (Sokho) town in the Shephelah of Judah, situated between Adullam and Azekah (Josh. 15:35) ... it was one of the cities occupied temporarily by the Philistines ... being one of the four cities named on the stamps of the Judean monarchy; also another entry for a Judean town called Socoh or Soco that is present-day Khirbat Shuwayka [West Bank]; another entry for a Socoh or Soco, a Canaanite town in the Sharon near Yaham, present-day Khirbat Shuwaykat al-Raʾs [West Bank]))
    • found: Bible Hub WWW site, February 02, 2017:main menu (In the district of the Shefelah (Joshua 15:35; 1 Samuel 17:1; 2 Chronicles 11:7)at the time of Eusebius it bore the name of Socchoth, and lay between eight and nine Roman miles from Eleutheropolis, on the road to Jerusalem)
    • found: Bible Hub WWW site, February 02, 2017:1 Samuel 17:1 (The Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah)
    • found: Bible Hub WWW site, February 02, 2017:1 Samuel 17:1, King James Bible version (The Philistines ... were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongs to Judah)
    • found: Abarim Publications WWW site, February 02, 2017:main menu (There are two towns named Socoh (also transliterated as Soco, or even Shocho) in the Bible, both situated in the territory of the tribe of Judah)
    • found: WikiVisually WWW site, February 02, 2017:main menu (Sokho alternate spellings: Sokhoh, Sochoh, Soco, Sokoh ... located to the South of Hebron ... 6 km southwest of Eshtamoa in the Hebron Hills district)
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    • 2017-01-23: new
    • 2017-07-13: revised
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