Strong H795אַשְׁדּוֹד
Ashdod
- Transliteration
- 'ashdôd
- Pronunciation
- ash-dode'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
From H7703; ravager;
{Ashdod} a place in Palestine: - Ashdod.
{Ashdod} a place in Palestine: - Ashdod.
Meaning of the name
Ashdod = "powerful"
Detailed definition
Ashdod or Azotus, one of the five major Philistine cities, was a center of Dagon worship and a target of prophetic judgment.
In the biblical story
Ashdod
A major Philistine city, known for Dagon worship.
Ashdod or Azotus, one of the five major Philistine cities, was a center of Dagon worship and a target of prophetic judgment.
In the Bible
Strong H795 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- ashdod15
First verses
- Joshua 11:22There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
- Joshua 15:46From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
- Joshua 15:47Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:
- 1 Samuel 5:1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.
- 1 Samuel 5:5Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
- 1 Samuel 5:6But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
- 1 Samuel 5:7And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
- 1 Samuel 6:17And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
- 2 Chronicles 26:6And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
- Isaiah 20:1In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
- Jeremiah 25:20And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
- Amos 1:8And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.
- Amos 3:9Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
- Zephaniah 2:4For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
- Zechariah 9:6And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.