(torn up by the roots; emigration), one of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, and the most northerly of the five (Joshua 13:3). Like the other Philistine cities its situation was in the lowlands. It fell to the lot of Judah (Joshua 15:45-46; Judges 1:18). Afterwards we find it mentioned among the cities of Dan (Joshua 19:43). Before the monarchy it was again in full possession of the Philistines (1 Samuel 5:10). Akir, the modern representative of Ekron, lies about five miles southwest of Ramleh. In the Apocrypha it appears as Accaron (1 Maccabees 10:89 only).