ashdod · Ashdod

What it means

ashdod (אַשְׁדּוֹד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ashdod”.

One of the five cities of the Philistines, near the coast.

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

• Ashdod

  Today: Ashdod, Israel

  A Philistine city near the Mediterranean coast, about 34 miles (55 km) west of Jerusalem.

  The Philistines brought the ark of God there, and their god Dagon fell before it (1 Sam 5:1-4).

  1 Samuel 5:1Joshua 15:46Amos 1:8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×3
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×2
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• 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 15:46

  from Ekron to the sea, all that were beside Ashdod, with their villages;

• 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.

• 1 Samuel 5:1

  Now the Philistines had taken the ark of Elohim, and they brought it from Eben-ezer to Ashdod.

• 1 Samuel 5:5

  That is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

• 1 Samuel 5:6

  And the hand of YHWH was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he devastated them and struck them with tumors, Ashdod and its territories.

• 1 Samuel 5:7

  And the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, and they said, “The ark of the Elohim of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.”

• 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;

• 2 Chronicles 26:6

  He went out and fought against the Philistines, and made a breach in the wall of Gath and in the wall of Jabneh and in the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.

• Isaiah 20:1

  In the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

• 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;

• Amos 1:8

  And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish, says Adonai YHWH.

• Amos 3:9

  Proclaim over the citadels in Ashdod, and over the citadels in the land of Egypt, and say, “Gather on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults in her midst, and the oppressed within her.”

• 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 9:6

  And a mamzer will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

And 2 more times.