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# אַשְׁדּוֹדִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H796

**Ashdodite** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ashdodite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/796/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַשְׁדּוֹדִי: adj.gent. Ashdodite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/796/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Ashdodite, הָא׳ n.sg. coll. Jos 13:3; usually pl. (הָ)אַשְׁדּוֹדִים 1 S 5:3, 6 Ne 4:1, and as adj. f. נָשִׁים אשׁדודיות Ne 13:23 Kt (Qr אַשְׁדֳּדִיּוֹת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ashdodites (2); Ashdodite (1); Ashdodite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 13:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.23/#tree)

גַּ֣ם ׀ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֗ם רָאִ֤יתִי אֶת־הַיְּהוּדִים֙ הֹשִׁ֗יבוּ נָשִׁים֙ אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹתעַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹתמוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* also in the days (the) those I.saw (et) the Jews \[who\].they.had.married women Ashdodite Ammonite Moabites

*JPS 1917:* In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

[1 Samuel 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.6/#tree)

וַתִּכְבַּ֧ד יַד־יְהוָ֛ה אֶל־הָאַשְׁדּוֹדִ֖ים וַיְשִׁמֵּ֑ם וַיַּ֤ךְ אֹתָם֙ בַּטְּחֹרִ֔יםאֶת־אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד וְאֶת־גְּבוּלֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.heavy the.hand of.Yahweh against the Ashdodites and he devastated.them and he.struck them with (the) tumors (et) Ashdod and (et) territories its

*JPS 1917:* But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/796.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/796/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).