Ashkelon
אַשְׁקְלוֹןStrong’s H0831ashqelon (ash-qe-lon)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashqelon is the Hebrew word usually translated “ashkelon” and “from ashkelon”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.”
Meaning
- Askelon or Ashkelon = "the fire of infamy: I shall be weighed"
How it's translated
- ashkelon 8
- and ashkelon 2
- for ashkelon 1
- from ashkelon 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Judges 2
- Zephaniah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Amos 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 1:18Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
- Judges 14:19And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.
- 1 Samuel 6:17And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
- 2 Samuel 1:20Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
- Jeremiah 25:20And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
- Jeremiah 47:5Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Hebrew dictionary
אַשְׁקְלוֹן ashqelon · Ashkelon
Askelon or Ashkelon = "the fire of infamy: I shall be weighed" a maritime city of the Philistines, southwest of Jerusalem Also named: esh.qe.lo.ni (אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי "Ashkelon" H0832)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.