Strong's #5804: `Azzah (pronounced az-zaw')
feminine of 5794; strong; Azzah, a place in Palestine:--Azzah, Gaza.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛azzâh
Azzah = "the strong"
1) another name for ' Gaza' , a city of the Philistines located in the extreme southwest of Palestine close to the Mediterranean
Part of Speech: noun feminine proper locative
Relation: from H5794
Usage:
This word is used 21 times:
Genesis 10:19: "from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah,"
Deuteronomy 2:23: "which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor,"
Joshua 10:41: "smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen,"
Joshua 11:22: "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"
Judges 1:18: "Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast"
Judges 6:4: "of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel,"
Judges 16:1: "Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in"
Judges 16:21: "his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did"
1 Samuel 6:17: "unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath"
1 Kings 4:24: "the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side"
2 Kings 18:8: "the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen"
1 Chronicles 7:28: "thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns"
Jeremiah 25:20: "of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,"
Jeremiah 47:1: "that Pharaoh smote Gaza."
Jeremiah 47:5: "Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley:"
Amos 1:6: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away"
Amos 1:7: "But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces"
Zephaniah 2:4: "For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod"
Zechariah 9:5: "Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for"
Zechariah 9:5: "her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not"
