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HebrewH0795Noun

אַשְׁדּוֹד

ash.dod

15Occurrences
H0795Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Ashdod, a place in Palestine

from H7703 (שָׁדַד); ravager;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Ashdod = "powerful" a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean Sea west from Jerusalem, modern Esdud

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

אַשְׁדּוֹד appears 15 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
5
Joshua
3
Amos
2
2 Chronicles
1
Isaiah
1
Jeremiah
1
Zechariah
1
Zephaniah
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 5:1BSB

After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,

1 Samuel 5:7BSB

And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”

Amos 1:8BSB

I will cut off the ruler of Ashdodand the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon.I will turn My hand against Ekron,and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,”says the Lord GOD.

Jeremiah 25:20BSB

all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Joshua 15:47BSB

Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.