How to Pronounce Phicol

FIGH-col

Phicol is pronounced FIGH-col: two syllables, stress on the first. Also heard: FYE-kahl.

What is Phicol?

Great, the chief captain of the army of Abimelech, the Philistine king of Gerar. He entered into an alliance with Abraham with reference to a certain well which, from this circumstance, was called Beersheba (q.v.), “the well of the oath” (Gen. 21:22, 32; 26:26).

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

Also pronounced

FYE-kahl

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