Hebrew word · H832

אֶשְׁקְלוֹנִי

ha'eshkeloni

Ashkelon

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Eshkalonites = "the fire of infamy: I shall be weighed"

an inhabitant of Ashkelon

Another spelling of ash.qe.lon (אַשְׁקְלוֹן "Ashkelon" H0831)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 13:3 הָאֶשְׁקְלוֹנִ֣י the Ashkelonite[s]

    from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;

    Here: The realm of Ashkelon, the great seaport between Gaza and Ashdod.

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