En-Hakkore

En-hak’ko-re. (fount of the caller). The spring which burst out in answer to the cry of Samson, after his exploit with the jawbone. Jdg 15:19.

(Hebrews Eyn hak-kore’, ין הקּורֵא, fountain of to caller; Sept. Πηγὴ τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου), a name given by Samson to the spring that burst forth in answer to his prayer in a dell of Lehi, when he was exhausted with the slaughter of the Philistines (Jdg 15:19). The word מִכְתֵּשׁ, maktesh’, which in the narrative denotes the "hollow place" (literally the "mortar") or socket in the jaw, and also that for the “jaw" itself, lechi, are both names of places. SEE LEHI. Van de Velde (Memoir, page 343) endeavors to identify Lehi with Tell el-Lekiyeh, 4 miles N. of Beersheba, and En-lakkore with the large spring between the tell and Khewelfeh. But Samson’s adventures appear to have been confined to a narrow circle, and there is no ground for extending them to a distance of some 30 miles from Gaza, which Lekiyeh is, even in a straight line. It appears to have been the same place later known (Neh 11:29) as EN-RIMMON SEE EN- RIMMON (q.v.).

EN-HAKKORE (‘spring of the partridge’; cf. 1Sa 26:20, Jer 17:11).—The name of a fountain at Lehi (Jdg 15:19). The narrator (J [Note: Jahwist.] ) of the story characteristically connects hakkôrç with the word yikrâ (‘he called’) of Jdg 15:18, and evidently interprets ‘En-hakkôrç as ‘the spring of him that called.’ The whole narrative is rather obscure, and the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] in some instances doubtful. The situation of En-hakkôrç is also quite uncertain.

en-hak´ō̇-rē, en-hak-ō´rē (עין הקּורא, ‛ēn ha-ḳōrē), “spring of the partridge”): Interpreted (Jdg 15:19) as meaning “the spring of him that called.” So the Septuagint: πηγή τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου, pēgḗ toú epikalouménoǔ. The spring was in Lehi but the site is unknown.