a.pheq is a proper place name used for locations in battle, boundary, city, and settlement lists.

The term is consistently a proper place name: it marks a battle and encampment location, a city to which survivors flee, a place named in a prophetic battle statement, and a location in boundary and settlement lists.

1. Proper name for a location · dominant

   All supplied tokens are tagged Noun · Proper. In 1 Kings 20:26 the APB renders Ben-hadad going up to “Aphek” to fight Israel, while 1 Kings 20:30 places fleeing survivors and Ben-hadad in the city. In Joshua 13:4 and Joshua 19:30 the APB includes “Aphek” in geographic boundary and city-list contexts; 1 Samuel 4:1 likewise places the Philistine camp there.

   1 Kings 20:261 Kings 20:301 Samuel 4:12 Kings 13:17Joshua 13:4Joshua 19:30

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the name as “Aphek” across battle accounts, geographic notices, and lists. Its English confirms the verse-level location context rather than supplying a separate lexical nuance.