Enhakkore

("fount of him who cried".) (See LEHI.) It burst out at Samson’s, cry, when athirst after slaying a thousand Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone (Jdg 15:19; Psa 34:6). As the rocky precipice was named Lehi, "the jawbone," so the hollow place in the rock was named Maktesh, "the tooth hollow." Samson cried to Jehovah ("God of grace"), and Elohim ("God of nature") split the hollow place at Lehi, so that water came out of it, as at Horeb and Kadesh (Exo 17:6; Num 20:8; Num 20:11), and the fountain was called "the fount of him who cried in Lehi."

[En-hak’kore]

This name, signifying ’the caller’s spring,’ was given by Samson to the place where God gave him water in answer to his call. The spring was doubtless in the rock, not in the jawbone (see margin ), because of the words following, "which is in Lehi unto this day." Jdg 15:19.