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# אַשְׁדּוֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H795

**Ahdod** — used 17 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

Ahdod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/795/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַשְׁדּוֹד: n.pr.loc. Ashdod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/795/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Ashdod (Assyrian Asdudu, COTGloss DlPa 289; Thes MV der. from √ שׁדד q.v.) a powerful city of the Philistines on Mediterr. Sea, W. from Jerusalem, modern Esdûd, Jos 11:22; 15:46, 47 (where assigned to Judah) 1 S 5:5, 6 (but del. Dr cf. 𝔊 6:17 Am 1:8; 3:9 Zp 2:4 Zc 9:6 Is 20:1 Je 25:20 2 Ch 26:6; c. ה—ָ loc. 1 S 5:1 Is 20:1; אַנְשֵׁי א׳ 1 S 5:7; appar. = territory of Ashdod 2 Ch 26:6 וַיִּבְנֶה עָרִים בְּאַשְׁדּוֹד. (Cf. SurveyJ, 442.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ashdod (11); of Ashdod (4); to (2).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 9:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.6/#tree)

וְיָשַׁ֥ב מַמְזֵ֖ר בְּאַשְׁדּ֑וֹד וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י גְּא֥וֹן פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.dwell a.mixed.population in Ashdod and I.will.cut.off the.pride of.\[the\].Philistines

*JPS 1917:* And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

[Joshua 15:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.46/#tree)

מֵעֶקְר֖וֹן וָיָ֑מָּה כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־עַל־יַ֥ד אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* from Ekron and westward all that \[is\].on the.hand of.Ashdod and villages their

*JPS 1917:* from Ekron even unto the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/795.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/795/): 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).