מֵעֶקְר֖וֹן וָיָ֑מָּה כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁר עַל יַ֥ד אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן
from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 15:46
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 15:46 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
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King James Version Public Domain
From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
from Ekron and to the sea, all that on the hand of Ashdod and their villages;
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, along with their villages;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, along with their villages;
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King James Version Public Domain
From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
from Ekron even unto the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
from Ekron even unto the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
From Ekron, euen vnto the Sea, all that lyeth about Ashdod with their villages.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
From Accaron even to the sea: all places that lie towards Azotus and the villages thereof.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
from Ekron and westward, all that `are' by the side of Ashdod, and their villages.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
from Ekron and westward, all that [are] by the side of Ashdod, and their villages.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
from Ekron to the Great Sea, all the settlements that were near Ashdod, including their villages.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
from Ekron and to the sea, all that on the hand of Ashdod and their villages;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
From Ekron and westward all that are by the side of Ashdod, and their hamlets.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
From Ekron even to the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
from Ekron to the sea those towns near Ashdod and their associated villages,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
from Ekron even unto the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד
ʼAshdôwd
H795
“Ashdod”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 17× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 11:22
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ashdod = "powerful"
- a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean Sea west from Jerusalem, modern Esdud
- מֵעֶקְר֖וֹן ʻEqrôwn H6138 “from · Ekron” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- וָיָ֑מָּה yâm H3220 “and · sea · toward” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
- כֹּ֛ל kôl H3605 “all” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- יַ֥ד yâd H3027 “hand of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד ʼAshdôwd H795 “Ashdod” Noun, Proper
- וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן châtsêr H2691 “and · courts · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד Ashdod H795 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד Ashdod H795 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
6Topical passages linked to Joshua 15:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 5:1 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders of it.
- 2 Chronicles 26:6 He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
- Nehemiah 13:23–24 In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
- Isaiah 20:1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
- Amos 1:8 I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; And I will turn my hand against Ekron; And the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord Yahweh.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ἀπό ακκαρων γεμνα καί πᾶς ὅσος εἰμί πλησίον ασηδωθ καί ὁ κώμη αὐτός
from Accaron, Gemna, and all the cities that are near Asedoth; and their villages.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
מֵעֶקְרוֹן וּמַעַרְבָא כָּל קִרְוַיָא דְעַל תְּחוּם אַשְׁדוֹד וּפַצְחֵיהֶן:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼAshdôwd (“Ashdod”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼAshdôwd carries the sense “Ashdod.” How does it shape the verse?
- Joshua 11:22 shares the word «Ashdod» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 15:46 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.