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Lexicon :: Strong's H831 - 'ašqᵊlôn

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אַשְׁקְלוֹן
Transliteration
'ašqᵊlôn
Pronunciation
ash-kel-one'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from שָׁקַל (H8254) in the sense of weighing-place (i.e. mart)
Strong’s Definitions

אַשְׁקְלוֹן ʼAshqᵉlôwn, ash-kel-one'; probably from H8254 in the sense of weighing-place (i.e. mart); Ashkelon, a place in Palestine:—Ashkelon, Askalon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H831 in the following manner: Ashkelon (9x), Askelon (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H831 in the following manner: Ashkelon (9x), Askelon (3x).

  1. Askelon or Ashkelon = "the fire of infamy: I shall be weighed"

    1. a maritime city of the Philistines, southwest of Jerusalem

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַשְׁקְלוֹן ʼAshqᵉlôwn, ash-kel-one'; probably from H8254 in the sense of weighing-place (i.e. mart); Ashkelon, a place in Palestine:—Ashkelon, Askalon.
STRONGS H831: Abbreviations
† אַשְׁקְלוֺן proper name, of a location a city of the Philistines (Assyrian Isqaluna COTGloss DlPa 290; Phoenician adjective, of a people compare below) Judges 1:18; Judges 14:19; 1 Samuel 6:17; 2 Samuel 1:20; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:5, 7; Amos 1:8; Zephaniah 2:4, 7; Zechariah 9:5 (twice in verse); on the Mediterranean Sea, south of west from Jerusalem, modern `Asqalân, Surveyiii. 237 f. (with plan); compare also ZPVii. 164 f.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

1:18; 14:19

1 Samuel

6:17

2 Samuel

1:20

Jeremiah

25:20; 47:5; 47:7

Amos

1:8

Zephaniah

2:4; 2:7

Zechariah

9:5

H831

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H831 matches the Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן ('ašqᵊlôn),
which occurs 12 times in 11 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:18 - Also [the warriors of] Judah captured Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19 -

Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of them and took their gear, and gave changes of clothes to those who had explained the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:17 -

These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath and one for Ekron [the five chief cities of the Philistines];

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:20 -

“Tell it not in Gath,

Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,

Or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice,

The daughters of the uncircumcised (pagans) will exult.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:20 - and all the foreign (mixed) population, all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (and [their cities of] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:5 -

“Baldness [as a sign of mourning] will come on Gaza;

Ashkelon will be cut off and ruined.

O remnant of their valley,

How long will you gash yourselves [as a sign of mourning]?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:7 -

“How can His sword be quiet

When the LORD has given it an order?

Against Ashkelon and against the [whole Philistine] seashore

There He has assigned it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:8

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“And I will cut off and destroy the inhabitants from Ashdod,

And the ruler who holds the scepter, from Ashkelon;

And I will unleash My power and turn My hand [in judgment] against Ekron,

And the rest of the Philistines [in Gath and the towns dependent on these four Philistine cities] shall die,”

Says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:4 -

For [this is the fate of the Philistines:] Gaza will be abandoned

And Ashkelon a desolation;

[The people of] Ashdod will be driven out at noon [in broad daylight]

And Ekron will be uprooted and destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:7 -

The [fn]seacoast will belong

To the remnant of the house of Judah;

They will pasture [their flocks] on it.

In the [deserted] houses of Ashkelon [in Philistia] they [of Judah] will lie down and rest in the evening,

For the LORD their God will care for them;

And restore their fortune [permitting them to occupy the land].

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:5 -

[fn]Ashkelon will see it and fear;

Gaza will writhe in pain,

And Ekron, for her hope and expectation, has been ruined.

The king will perish from Gaza,

And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

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