(Heb. De'ker,
ãֶּ÷ֶø
, a thrusting through), the father of Solomon's purveyor in the second royal district (1Ki_4:9), from which passage it appears that his son BEN-DEKER (
áֶּïàּãֶּ÷ֶø
; Sept.
õἱὸò ÄáêÜñ
; Vulg. Bendecar) was the royal commissariat officer in the western part of the hill-country of Judah and Benjamin, Shaalbim and Bethshemesh. B.C. ante 1014.