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title: אַשְׁדּוֹדִי — Ashdodite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַשְׁדּוֹדִי (796), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Ashdodite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Ashdodite. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַשְׁדּוֹדִי

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«אַשְׁדּוֹדִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ashdodite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 796 · **BDB:** אַשְׁדּוֹדִי

### Glosses

Ashdodites (2); Ashdodite (1); Ashdodite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ashdodite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/796/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Ashdodite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/796/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Ashdodite, הָא׳ n.sg. coll. Jos 13:3; usually pl. (הָ)אַשְׁדּוֹדִים 1 S 5:3, 6 Ne 4:1, and as adj. f. נָשִׁים אשׁדודיות Ne 13:23 Kt (Qr אַשְׁדֳּדִיּוֹת).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַשְׁדּוֹדִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/796/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 13:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.23/)

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גַּ֣ם ׀ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֗ם רָאִ֤יתִי אֶת־הַיְּהוּדִים֙ הֹשִׁ֗יבוּ נָשִׁים֙ אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹתעַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹתמוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* also in the days (the) those I.saw (et) the Jews \[who\].they.had.married women Ashdodite Ammonite Moabites

*JPS 1917:* In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

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[1 Samuel 5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.6/)

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וַתִּכְבַּ֧ד יַד־יְהוָ֛ה אֶל־הָאַשְׁדּוֹדִ֖ים וַיְשִׁמֵּ֑ם וַיַּ֤ךְ אֹתָם֙ בַּטְּחֹרִ֔יםאֶת־אַשְׁדּ֖וֹד וְאֶת־גְּבוּלֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.heavy the.hand of.Yahweh against the Ashdodites and he devastated.them and he.struck them with (the) tumors (et) Ashdod and (et) territories its

*JPS 1917:* But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

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