. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ad. The theory of Ravvlinson is, that Ak-kad was the name of the great primitive Hamiterace who inhabited Babylonia from the earliesttime. He identifies the city with a town inLower Babylonia, called Kind Accad in the inscrip-tions, the site of which is not yet determined. , Kitto, &c., place Accad, at Akker-koof, aboutfifty miles of Babylon, where is a remarkableancient heap of ruins called Nimrods Hill. Acca-ron. Ekron. Accho [akko] (Heb. sand healed by the sun, Ges.)= Ptolemais in 1 Mc. and N. T., now called Akka,or by Europeans, St
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ad. The theory of Ravvlinson is, that Ak-kad was the name of the great primitive Hamiterace who inhabited Babylonia from the earliesttime. He identifies the city with a town inLower Babylonia, called Kind Accad in the inscrip-tions, the site of which is not yet determined. , Kitto, &c., place Accad, at Akker-koof, aboutfifty miles of Babylon, where is a remarkableancient heap of ruins called Nimrods Hill. Acca-ron. Ekron. Accho [akko] (Heb. sand healed by the sun, Ges.)= Ptolemais in 1 Mc. and N. T., now called Akka,or by Europeans, St. Jean dAcre, or Acre, the mostimportant seaport town on the coast of Palestine,about thirty miles S. of Tyre, on a slightly projectingheadland, at the northern extremity of the spaciousbay formed by the bold promontory of Carmel on theopposite side. The hills, which farther N. are closeto the sea-shore, recede, and leave round Accho afertile plain about fifteen miles long and six milesbroad, watered by the small river Belus (Nahr Na1-. Akka or Acre = ancient Accho or Ptolemais (from Kitto). man), which discharges itself into the sea close un-der the walls of the town: to the S. E. is a road tothe interior in the direction of Sepphoris. Accho,thus favorably placed in command of the approachesfrom the N., both by sea and land, has been justlytermed the key of Palestine.—In the division ofCanaan, Accho fell to Asher, but was never wrestedfrom its original inhabitants (Judges i. 31); andhence it is reckoned by the classical writers as aPhenician city. No further mention is made of it in the 0. T., but after the dismemberment of the Macedonian empire it was the most important town onthe coast. Along with the rest of Phenicia it fell toEgypt, and was named Ptolemais, after one of thePtolemies, probably Soter. In the wars that ensuedbetween Syria and Egypt, it was taken by Anticchusthe Great, and attached to his kingdom. When theMaccabees established themselves in Judea, it be-came
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