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HebrewH5804Noun

עַזָּה

az.zah

19Occurrences
H5804Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Azzah, a place in Palestine

feminine of H5794 (עַז); strong;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Azzah = "the strong" another name for 'Gaza', a city of the Philistines located in the extreme southwest of Palestine close to the Mediterranean

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עַזָּה appears 19 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
4
Jeremiah
3
Joshua
3
Amos
2
1 Chronicles
1
1 Samuel
1
2 Kings
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 7:28BSB

Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.

Amos 1:6BSB

This is what the LORD says:“For three transgressions of Gaza, even four,I will not revoke My judgment,because they exiled a whole population,delivering them up to Edom.

Genesis 10:19BSB

and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Judges 16:21BSB

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

Jeremiah 47:1BSB

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.

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