1. Also called SHOCHO, SHOCHOH, SHOCO, SOCHOH
A city of the tribe of Judah
Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, (Joshua 15:35)
Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. (1 Samuel 17:1)
One of Solomon's commissaries in
The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: (1 Kings 4:10)
Rebuilt and fortified by Rehoboam
And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam, (2 Chronicles 11:7)
Captured by Philistines
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there. (2 Chronicles 28:18)
2. A city in the mountains of the tribe of Judah
And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, (Joshua 15:48)