אַשְׁדּוֹדִיʼAshdôwdîy

Ashdodite (Joshua 13:3; 1 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 5:6; Nehemiah 4:1; Nehemiah 13:23)

Pronunciation: ash-do-dee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H796

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 13:3 and the larger territory of the Canaanites, extending from the stream of Shihor on the border of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron. It includes the territory of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. The land of the Avvites
  • 1 Samuel 5:3 But when the citizens of Ashdod went to see it the next morning, Dagon had fallen with his face to the ground in front of the Ark of the Lord! So they took Dagon and put him in his place again.
  • 1 Samuel 5:6 Then the Lord’s heavy hand struck the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors.
  • Nehemiah 4:7 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the work was going ahead and that the gaps in the wall of Jerusalem were being repaired, they were furious.
  • Nehemiah 13:23 About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).