Gaza
עַזָּהStrong’s H5804azzah (az-zah)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Azzah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gaza”, “gaza towards” and “ayyah”. It appears in 20 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
- § Azzah = "the strong"
How it's translated
- gaza 14
- gaza towards 2
- in gaza 1
- for gaza 1
- ayyah 1
- and gaza 1
- from gaza 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- Joshua 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Amos 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 10:19And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
- Deuteronomy 2:23And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
- Joshua 10:41And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
- Joshua 11:22There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
- Joshua 15:47Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:
- Judges 1:18Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
עַזָּה azzah · Gaza
§ Azzah = "the strong" another name for 'Gaza', a city of the Philistines located in the extreme southwest of Palestine close to the Mediterranean
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.