Ecron

ECRON(Ἀκκάρων), one of the 5 cities of the Philistines (1 Sam. 5.10, 11, 6.17)t in the northern border of Judah ( Josh. 15.11.); but assigned to the children of Dan (19.43.), and accordingly ascribed to that tribe in Eusebius ( Onomast. s. v. ), where St. Jerome adds ut ego arbitror in tribu Juda.They place it between Azotus and Jamnia to the east;. and St. Jerome mentions that it was sometimes supposed to be identical with Strato's Tower, afterwards Caesareia--a manifest and inexplicable error. Its site is preserved by the modern village of Akir, SSW. of Ramleh in the great plain. (Robinson, Bib. Res. vol. iii. pp. 22--24.