Bible Encyclopedias
Dekar
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
(Heb. De'ker, דֶּקֶר, a thrusting through), the father of Solomon's purveyor in the second royal district (1 Kings 4:9), from which passage it appears that his son BEN-DEKER (בֶּןאּדֶּקֶר; Sept. υἱὸς Δακάρ; Vulg. Bendecar) was the royal commissariat officer in the western part of the hill-country of Judah and Benjamin, Shaalbim and Bethshemesh. B.C. ante 1014.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Dekar'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/d/dekar.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.