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Socho
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1. 1 Chronicles 4:18. Heber was "father," founder, or colonist of Socho in the low hill region of Judah. Now Shuweikeh, in the western part of the low hills of Judah, on the southern slope of the wady Sumt, nearly half a mile above the bed of the wady, a natural terrace, green in spring, dotted with grey ruins. SOCHOH in 1 Kings 4:10. SOCOH in Joshua 15:35. Between Socho and Azekah the Philistines were posted for the battle wherein Goliath fell (1 Samuel 17:1). Rehoboam fortified it after the disruption (2 Chronicles 11:7). Taken by the Philistines in Ahaz' reign (2 Chronicles 28:18).
2. Also in Judah; now Shuweibeh (Joshua 15:48), ten miles S.W. of Hebron.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Socho'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/s/socho.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Socho'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/s/socho.html. 1949.
