ʼAshdôwdîy — H796

Definition

adjective

an Ashdodite (often collectively) or inhabitant of Asdod

1. Ashdodites = "I will spoil"
2. an inhabitant of Ashdod

Usually translated as

Ashdodites, of Ashdod

Origin

patrial from H795

• Derived from ʼAshdôwd (H795)

Occurrences

ʼAshdôwdîy occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Joshua (1), Nehemiah (2)

• Joshua 13:3 — From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites (וְהָאַשְׁדּוֹדִי֙), the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
• Nehemiah 4:7 — But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites (וְהָאַשְׁדּוֹדִ֗ים), heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
• Nehemiah 13:23 — In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod (אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת), of Ammon, and of Moab: