Ashdod: meaning of the name

Places named Ashdod

• Ashdod

Ashdod in Scripture

“Ashdod” appears in 18 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Joshua 11:22

  There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

• Joshua 15:46

  From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:

• Joshua 15:47

  Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:

• 1 Samuel 5:1

  And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.

• 1 Samuel 5:3

  And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

• 1 Samuel 5:5

  Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

• 1 Samuel 5:6

  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 coasts thereof.

• 1 Samuel 5:7

  And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.