APHEK, the name of several cities mentioned in Scripture. 1. A city in the tribe of Asher, supposed to be the same place with the Ἀφάα which Eusebius and Sozomen place in Lebanon, on the river Adonis, where there was a famous temple of Venus. A village called Afka is still found in Lebanon, situated at the bottom of a valley, and may possibly mark the site of this town. 2. A town near which Benhadad was defeated by the Israelites (1 Kings xx. 26, eq.); it seems to correspond to the Aphaca of Eusebius, situated to the east of the Sea of Galilee, and mentioned by Burckhardt, Seetzen, and others, under the name of Feik. 3. A city in the tribe of Issachar, not far from Jezreel, where the Philistines twice encamped before battles with the Israelites (1 Sam. iv. 1; xxix. 1). Either this or the first Aphek, but most probably this, was the Aphek mentioned in Josh. xii. 18, as a royal city of the Canaanites.