aza · Gaza

What it means

aza (עַזָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gaza”.

A city on the southern coast of Canaan.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Gaza

  Today: Gaza City, Gaza Strip

  A Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast, at the far southwest of Israel.

  There the Philistines blinded Samson and made him grind grain (Judg 16:21); he died there pulling down the temple (Judg 16:30).

  Judges 16:21Judges 16:1Jeremiah 47:5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×3
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Amos×2
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 10:19

  And the territory of the Canaanites was from Sidon, in the direction of Gerar, as far as Gaza; in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

• Deuteronomy 2:23

  As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)

• Joshua 10:41

  And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

• Joshua 11:22

  No Anakim were left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.

• Joshua 15:47

  Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the Great Sea and its coast.

• Judges 1:18

  Judah captured Gaza and its territory, Ashkelon and its territory, and Ekron and its territory.

• Judges 6:4

  They would camp against them and destroy the produce of the land as far as your coming to Gaza, and they would not leave sustenance in Israel, neither lamb nor ox nor donkey.

• Judges 16:1

  Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a woman, a prostitute, and he went in to her.

• Judges 16:21

  And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters; and he was grinding in the house of the prisoners.

• 1 Samuel 6:17

  And these are the gold tumors that the Philistines restored as a guilt offering to YHWH: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

• 1 Kings 4:24

  For he was ruling over all the other side of the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gaza, over all the kings of the other side of the river; and he had peace on all his sides all around.

• 2 Kings 18:8

  He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territories, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

• Jeremiah 25:20

  and all the mixed peoples, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

• Jeremiah 47:1

  That which came as the word of YHWH to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

• Jeremiah 47:5

  Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been silenced, the remnant of their valley. How long will you gash yourself?

• Amos 1:6

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they carried into exile a whole captive people to hand them over to Edom.

• Amos 1:7

  And I will send fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour her citadels.

• Zephaniah 2:4

  For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod, at noon they will drive her out, and Ekron will be uprooted.

• Zechariah 9:5

  Ashkelon will see it and fear, and Gaza, and will writhe greatly, and Ekron, for her expectation has been put to shame; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

And 1 more times.