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Ashdod

AZOTH, according to the Vulgate, or Azotus, according to the Greek, a city which was assigned by Joshua to the tribe of Judah, but was possessed a long time by the Philistines, and rendered famous for the temple of their god Dagon, Joshua xv, 47. It lies upon the Mediterranean Sea, about nine or ten miles north of Gaza; Ashdod is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “effusion; inclination; theft.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0795
Hebrew
אַשְׁדּוֹד
Name meaning
effusion; inclination; theft According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

H0795

אַשְׁדּוֹד

Glosses: Ashdod

Indexed occurrences: 15

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ashdod

effusion; inclination; theft

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

ASHDOD

AZOTH, according to the Vulgate, or Azotus, according to the Greek, a city which was assigned by Joshua to the tribe of Judah, but was possessed a long time by the Philistines, and rendered famous for the temple of their god Dagon, Joshua xv, 47. It lies upon the Mediterranean Sea, about nine or ten miles north of Gaza; and in the times when Christianity flourished in these parts was made an episcopal see, and continued a fair village till the days of St.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references21 references

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Ashdod

Meaning:
effusion; inclination; theft

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Sources

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