Aphik

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Aphik
     (Judg. 1:31); Aphek (Josh. 13:4; 19:30), stronghold. (1.) A city
     of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious
     worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple,
     "magnificent ruins" in a "spot of strange wildness and beauty",
     are still seen at Afka, on the north-west slopes of Lebanon,


     near the source of the river Adonis (now Nahr Ibrahim), 12 miles
     east of Gebal.
     
       (2.) A city of the tribe of Issachar, near to Jezreel (1 Sam.
     4:1; 29:1; comp. 28:4).
     
       (3.) A town on the road from Damascus to Palestine, in the
     level plain east of Jordan, near which Benhadad was defeated by
     the Israelites (1 Kings 20:26, 30; 2 Kings 13:17). It has been
     identified with the modern Fik, 6 miles east of the Sea of
     Galilee, opposite Tiberias.