Gaza: meaning of the name

Gaza in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Gaza

• Gaza

Gaza in Scripture

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

• Genesis 10:19

  And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

• Joshua 10:41

  And Joshua smote them from Kadesh–barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.

• 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 15:47

  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:

• Judges 1:18

  Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

• Judges 6:4

  And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

• Judges 16:1

  Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

• Judges 16:21

  But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.