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title: אַשְׁקְלוֹן — Ashkelon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַשְׁקְלוֹן (831), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: Ashkelon. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַשְׁקְלוֹן

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«אַשְׁקְלוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ashkelon** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 831 · **BDB:** אַשְׁקְלוֹן

### Glosses

Ashkelon (10); of.Ashkelon (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ashkelon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/831/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/831/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. a city of the Philistines (Assyrian Isqaluna COTGloss DlPa 290; Ph. adj. gent. cf. infr.) Ju 1:18; 14:19 1 S 6:17 2 S 1:20 Je 25:20; 47:5, 7 Am 1:8 Zp 2:4, 7 Zc 9:5(×2); on the Medit. Sea, S. of W. from Jerusalem, mod. ʿAsqalân, Surveyiii. 237 f. (with plan); cf. also ZPV ii. 164 f.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַשְׁקְלוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/831/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 47:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.47.5/)

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בָּ֤אָה קָרְחָה֙ אֶל־עַזָּ֔ה נִדְמְתָ֥ה אַשְׁקְל֖וֹן שְׁאֵרִ֣ית עִמְקָ֑ם עַד־מָתַ֖י תִּתְגּוֹדָֽדִי׃ס

*Word for word:* it.will.come baldness to Gaza it.will.be.silent Ashkelon O.remnant their.valley their until when? will.you.cut.yourself

*JPS 1917:* Baldness is come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley; how long wilt thou cut thyself?

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[Jeremiah 47:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.47.7/)

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אֵ֣יךְ תִּשְׁקֹ֔טִי וַֽיהוָ֖ה צִוָּה־לָ֑הּ אֶֽל־אַשְׁקְל֛וֹן וְאֶל־ח֥וֹף הַיָּ֖ם שָׁ֥ם יְעָדָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* how? will.you.be.inactive and Yahweh he.has.commanded (to) it against Ashkelon and against the.coast of the.sea there he has.appointed.it

*JPS 1917:* How canst thou be quiet? for the LORD hath given it a charge; against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there hath He appointed it.

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