Helkath

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Helkath . A Levitical city belonging to the tribe of Asher (  Joshua 19:25;   Joshua 21:31 ). The site is uncertain. The same place, owing probably to a textual error, appears in   1 Chronicles 6:75 as Hukok .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Town on the border of Asher allotted to the Gershonites.  Joshua 19:25;  Joshua 21:31 . Called HUKOK in  1 Chronicles 6:75 . Identified by some with Yerka, 32 57' N, 35 12' E .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The town where the boundary of Asher began, proceeding from S. to N. ( Joshua 19:25.) Allotted to the Gershonite Levites ( Joshua 21:31). HUKOK in  1 Chronicles 6:75.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 19:25 Joshua 21:31 1 Chronicles 6:75

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 19:25 21:31 1 Chronicles 6:75

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Chelkath', חֶלְקִת ,  Joshua 19:25, but חֶלְקָת , even without pause- accent,  Joshua 21:31;" construct" of, חֶלְקָה , Smoothness, as in  Genesis 27:16, Or Potion, as in  Genesis 33:19, etc.; Sept. Χελκάθ ), a town of Asher, on the eastern border, mentioned as the starting-point in the direction (apparently southward) to Achshaph ( Joshua 19:25); assigned as one of the Levitical cities ( Joshua 21:31). In  1 Chronicles 6:75, it appears to be erroneously written HUKOK. (See Hukkoe). p the Onomnasticon it is simply mentioned by Eusebius as Eoiri, by Jerome as Elcath; but neither seems to have known it. De Saulcy inclines to identify it with a village called Kirkeh, which he reports not far southeast of Akka (Narrative, 1, 68); and Schwarz (Palestine, p. 191) thinks it is the modern Yerka, about seven miles north-east of Akka; but neither of these positions is in the neighborhood indicated by the text, which rather requires a locality nearer the north-eastern angle of the tribe, not unlikely at the ruined village Ukrith, about twelve miles S.E. of Tyre, as proposed by Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 320). (See Helkath- Hazzuarim).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hel´kath ( חלקת , ḥelḳath (  Joshua 19:25 ); ḥelḳāth ( Joshua 21:31 ); by a scribal error ḥūḳōḳ ( 1 Chronicles 6:75 )): A town or district on the border of Asher, assigned to the Levites; unidentified.