Aphek

The name Aphek refers to either:

• 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 Philistines encamped while the Israelites pitched in Eben-Ezer, before the battle in which the sons of Eli were killed. (1 Samuel 4:1 )
• A city of the tribe of Issachar, near to Saul.
• A town on the road from Damascus to Palestine, near which Sea of Galilee.