אַשְׁדּוֹד
Ashdod
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H795 appears — 15 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 11:22 וּ/בְ/אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד conj + prep + n Proper There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
- Joshua 15:46 אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד n Proper from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
- Joshua 15:47 אַשְׁדּ֞וֹד n Proper Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [of it].
1 Samuel 5 verses
- 1 Samuel 5:1 אַשְׁדּֽוֹדָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
- 1 Samuel 5:5 בְּ/אַשְׁדּ֑וֹד prep + n Proper Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this day.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד n Proper 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.
- 1 Samuel 5:7 אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד n Proper When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore on us, and on Dagon our god.
- 1 Samuel 6:17 לְ/אַשְׁדּ֨וֹד prep + n Proper These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass-offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Amos 2 verses
- Amos 1:8 מֵֽ/אַשְׁדּ֔וֹד prep + n Proper 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.
- Amos 3:9 בְּ/אַשְׁדּ֔וֹד prep + n Proper Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, And say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, And see what unrest is in her, And what oppression is among them."
Zephaniah 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אשדוד (ʼAshdôwd) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Ashdod.” Scripture first uses it in Joshua 11:22. Spanning 15 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. 1 Samuel dominates its distribution — 5 of 15 verses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H795 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 14 verses · 93%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ashdod 15×
- American Standard Version: Ashdod 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ashdod 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ashdod 16×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H795 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H795 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H795 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H795 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ashdod = "powerful"
- a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean Sea west from Jerusalem, modern Esdud
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Ashdod (Assyrian Asdudu, COTGloss DlPa 289; Thes MV der. from √ שׁדד q.v.) a powerful city of the Philistines on Mediterr. Sea, W. from Jerusalem, modern Esdûd, Jos 11:22; 15:46, 47 (where assigned to Judah) 1 S 5:5, 6 (but del. Dr cf. 𝔊 6:17 Am 1:8; 3:9 Zp 2:4 Zc 9:6 Is 20:1 Je 25:20 2 Ch 26:6; c. ה—ָ loc. 1 S 5:1 Is 20:1; אַנְשֵׁי א׳ 1 S 5:7; appar. = territory of Ashdod 2 Ch 26:6 וַיִּבְנֶה עָרִים בְּאַשְׁדּוֹד. (Cf. SurveyJ, 442.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שדד (shâdad) (H7703) — to devastate.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H795 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 5:6 | 3 |
| בְּ/אַשְׁדּ֑וֹד | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 5:5 | 2 |
| בְּ/אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 26:6 | 2 |
| אַשְׁדּ֑וֹד | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 26:6 | 1 |
| אַשְׁדּ֔וֹדָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 20:1 | 1 |
| אַשְׁדּ֗וֹד | Noun, Proper | Zephaniah 2:4 | 1 |
| אַשְׁדּ֞וֹד | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:47 | 1 |
| אַשְׁדּֽוֹד | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 25:20 | 1 |
| אַשְׁדּֽוֹדָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 5:1 | 1 |
| בְּ/אַשְׁדּ֔וֹד | Noun, Proper | Amos 3:9 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד | Noun, Proper | Joshua 11:22 | 1 |
| לְ/אַשְׁדּ֨וֹד | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 6:17 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/אַשְׁדּ֔וֹד | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H795, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ashdod). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Stronghold, a Philistine city (Josh. 15:47), about midway between Gaza and Joppa, and 3 miles from the Mediterranean. It was one of the chief seats of the worship of Dagon (1 Sam. 5:5). It belonged to the tribe of Judah (Josh. 15:47), but it never came into their actual possession. It was an important city, as it stood on the highroad from Egypt to Palestine, and hence was strongly fortified (2 Chr. 26:6; Isa. 20:1). Uzziah took it, but fifty years after his death it was taken by the Assyrians (B.C. 758). According to Sargon's record, it was captured by him in B.C. 711. The only reference to it in the New Testament, where it is called Azotus, is in the account of Philip's return from Gaza (Acts 8:40). It is now called Eshdud.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
effusion; inclination; theft
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 15 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Joshua 11:22
- 1 Samuel 5:1
- 2 Chronicles 26:6
- Isaiah 20:1
- Jeremiah 25:20
- Amos 1:8
- Zephaniah 2:4
- Zechariah 9:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
