Strong H796אַשְׁדּוֹדִי
Ashdod
- Transliteration
- 'ashdôdîy
- Pronunciation
- ash-do-dee'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
Patrial from H795; an Ashdodite (often collectively) or inhabitant of Ashdod: - {Ashdodites} of Ashdod.
Meaning of the name
Ashdodite = "I will spoil"
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 H796 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- ashdod3
- ashdodites1
- ashdothites1
First verses
- Joshua 13:3From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
- 1 Samuel 5:3And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
- 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.
- Nehemiah 4:7But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
- Nehemiah 13:23In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: