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title: אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי — Ashkelonite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי (832), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ashkelonite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי

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«אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ashkelonite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 832 · **BDB:** אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי

### Glosses

Ashkelonite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ashkelonite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/832/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/832/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. as subst. הָא׳ Jos 13:3 (Ph. אשקלני).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 «אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/832/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 13:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.3/)

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מִֽן־הַשִּׁיח֞וֹר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י מִצְרַ֗יִם וְעַ֨ד גְּב֤וּל עֶקְרוֹן֙ צָפ֔וֹנָה לַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י תֵּחָשֵׁ֑ב חֲמֵ֣שֶׁת ׀ סַרְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים הָעַזָּתִ֤י וְהָאַשְׁדּוֹדִי֙ הָאֶשְׁקְלוֹנִ֣י הַגִּתִּ֔י וְהָעֶקְרוֹנִ֖י וְהָעַוִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* from the Shihor which \[is\].on the.face of.Egypt and to the.border of.Ekron northward to the Canaanite\[s\] it.is.reckoned the.five the.rulers of.\[the\].Philistines the Gazite\[s\] and the Ashdodite\[s\] the Ashkelonite\[s\] the Gittite\[s\] and the Ekronite\[s\] and the Avvite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron northward — which is counted to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite, and the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; also the Avvim

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