Rakkon

Rakkon appears once in Scripture as a boundary marker on the western edge of Dan's tribal allotment: "And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families... And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho" (Joshua 19:40-46). The town lay near the Mediterranean coast just south of the Yarkon River on the route to Japho (Joppa), in the contested western frontier where Dan's original allotment butted against Philistine and Canaanite coastal cities. Dan's inability to hold this coastal territory eventually drove the tribe to migrate north to Laish in upper Galilee — but the boundary markers preserve the memory of the original western frontier.