Hukkok

A city in the tribe of Asher. (Josh. xix. 31. probably Chakak, so called, meaning statutes, writings.

Huk’kok. (incised). A place on the boundary of Naphtali. Jos 19:34. It has been recovered in Yakuk, a village in the mountains of Naphtali, west of the upper end of the Sea of Galilee.

On the boundary of Naphtali (Jos 19:34). Now it is Yakuk, a village W. of the upper end of the sea of Galilee. Tradition places here Habakkuk’s tomb.

[Huk’kok]

City in the boundary of Naphtali. Jos 19:34. Identified with Yakuk, 32° 53’ N, 35° 28’ E.

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By: Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn

Place on the borders of Naphtali, near Aznot Tabor (Josh. xix. 34). As the frontier line coincided with the western limit of Asher (l.c.), it is probable that this place is identical with the Hukok that fell to the lot of Asher (I Chron. vi. 60), though the latter is written . Estori Farḥi ("Kaftor wa-Feraḥ," xviii.), followed by such scholars as Schwarz and Robinson, identifies Hukkok with the modern Yaḳuḳ, a village 6 miles southwest of Safed and 12 miles north of Mount Tabor, where tradition places the grave of Habakkuk. Estori saw at Yaḳuḳ a Jewish synagogue; he says that the place must not be confounded with the Hukok of Asher.

Bibliography:

Zunz, Notes to Benjamin of Tudela, ed. Asher, ii. 421;

Schwarz, Das Heilige Land, p. 144;

Robinson, Researches, 2d ed., p. 81.

HUKKOK.—A place near Tabor on the west of Naphtali (Jos 19:34). It may be the present village Yâkûk near the edge of the plateau to the N.W. of the Sea of Galilee.

huk´ok (חקּק, ḥuḳḳōḳ): A town on the border of Naphtali named with Aznoth-tabor (Jos 19:34). It is usually identified with the village of yāḳūḳ, which stands on the West of Wādy el-‛Amūd, to the Northwest of Gennesaret, about 4 miles from the sea. This would fall on the boundary of Zebulun and Naphtali, between Tabor and Hannathon (Jos 19:14). The identification may be correct; but it seems too far from Tabor.