ACHZIB ăk’ zĭb (אַכְזִ֖יב, lying, deceptive, disappointing). 1. A boundary city of Asher on the Mediterranean coast (Josh 19:29) from which the Asherites were not able to drive out the Canaanites with whom they then lived (Judg 1:31). Eusebius places Achzib on the road from Ptolemais to Tyre. In NT times it was called Ecdippa, now identified with modern ez-Zib, eleven m. from Acco.

2. A city of the shephelah of Judah, prob. to be identified with Chezib in Genesis 38:5, where several of Judah’s sons were born, and with Cozeba (KJV Chozeba) in 1 Chronicles 4:21 where the men of Cozeba are called “sons of Shelah the son of Judah.” In Joshua 15:44 Achzib is in the city lists of Judah and Simeon between Keilah and Mareshah, and so, as in Genesis 38:5, not far from Adullam, Micah makes a play on the meaning of Achzib saying, “...the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel” (Mic 1:14). It is tentatively identified with modern Tell el-Beida.