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Gaza

A city of the Philistines, made by Joshua part of the tribe of Judah. It was one of the five principalities of the Philistines, situated toward the southern extremity of the promised land, 1 Sam. Gaza is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “strong; a goat.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

View overview sources
  • 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
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H5804, G1048
Hebrew
עַזָּה
Greek
Γάζα · Gaza
Name meaning
strong; a goat According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

H5804

עַזָּה

Glosses: Gaza

Indexed occurrences: 19

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

G1048

Γάζα · Gaza

Glosses: Gaza

Γάζα -ης, ἡ (Heb. עַזָּה), Gaza, in OT, one of the five chief cities of the Philistines: Act. 8:26.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

H5804

עַזָּה · ʻAzzâh

Glosses: Azzah, Gaza.

Azzah, a place in Palestine

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Gaza

strong; a goat

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

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

GAZA

a city of the Philistines, made by Joshua part of the tribe of Judah. It was one of the five principalities of the Philistines, situated toward the southern extremity of the promised land, 1 Sam. vi, 17, between Raphia and Askelon.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references35 references

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gaza

Meaning:
strong; a goat

Indexed occurrences: 0

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

Sources

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