ACHII (a'ku), (Heb. atv'koo). This word occurs in Job viii :II, where it is said, 'Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water ?' Here flag stands for achu; which would seem to indicate some specific plant, as gome, or rush, in the first clause of the sentence, may denote the papyrus. Achu occurs also twice in Gen. xli :2, 18, 'And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well-favored trine and fat fleshed, and they fed in a meadow:' here it is rendered nieadoze, and must, therefore, have been considered by our translators as a general, and not a specific, term.
From the context of the few passages in which achu occurs, it is evident that it indicates a plant or plants which grew in or in the neighborhood of water, and also that it or they were suitable as pasturage for cattle.
ACHZIB (5.1t'zib), (Heb. uk-zeeb', false hood, deceit). There are two places of this name, not usually distinguished.
1. Achzib, in the tribe of Asher nominally, but almost always in the possession of the Phoeni cians; being, indeed, one of the places from which the Israelites were unable to expel the former inhabitants ( Judg. i :31). In the Talmud it is
called Chezib. 'The Greeks called it Ecdippa, from the Aramxan pronunciation, and it still sur vives under the name of Zib. It is upon the 3,Iediterranean coast, about ten miles north of Acre. It stands on an ascent close by the seaside, and is described as a small place, with a few palm trees rising above the dwellings (Pococke, ii :115; Richter, p. 7o ; Maundrell, p. 71 ; Irby and Mangles, p. 196; Buckingham, ch. iii).
2. Achzib (Sept. 'Axil/3, Ach-zeb'), in the tribe of Judah ( Josh. xv :44; Mic. i :14), of which there is no historical mention, but, from its place in the catalogue, it appears to have been in the mid dle part of the western borderland of the tribe, towards the Philistines. This is very possibly the Chezib of Gen. xxxviii :5.