Achor definitions

Achor

1) Biblical Jericho
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Achor

Achor ər (Hebrew עכור `muddy, turbid: gloomy, dejected`) is the name of a valley in the vicinity of Jericho. Eusebius (in Onomasticon) and Jerome (in Book of Sites and Names of Hebrew Places) implied that they thought it was a valley north of Jericho. In the nineteenth century some writers identified the valley with the wadi al-Qelt, a deep.....
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achor

eruption or scab on the head
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Achor

Eruption (rash) on the scalp
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Achor

In Cyrenean mythology, Achor was the god of flies. Pacifying Achor prevented the worshipper from being pestered by flies.
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Achor

Achor is (was?) a disease of infants, in which the head, face and breast become encrusted with thin, yellowish or greenish scabs.
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