Accho

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Accho
       n : a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern
           Mediterranean [syn: {Acre}, {Akko}, {Akka}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Accho
     sultry or sandy, a town and harbour of Phoenicia, in the tribe
     of Asher, but never acquired by them (Judg. 1:31). It was known
     to the ancient Greeks and Romans by the name of Ptolemais, from
     Ptolemy the king of Egypt, who rebuilt it about B.C. 100. Here
     Paul landed on his last journey to Jerusalem (Acts 21:7). During
     the crusades of the Middle Ages it was called Acra; and
     subsequently, on account of its being occupied by the Knights
     Hospitallers of Jerusalem, it was called St. Jean d'Acre, or
     simply Acre.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Accho, close; pressed together