Strong's #831: 'Ashqlown (pronounced ash-kel-one')

probably from 8254 in the sense of weighing-place (i.e. mart); Ashkelon, a place in Palestine:--Ashkelon, Askalon.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ashqelôn

Askelon or Ashkelon = "the fire of infamy: I shall be weighed"

1) a maritime city of the Philistines, southwest of Jerusalem

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: probably from H8254 in the sense of weighing-place (i.e. mart)

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Judges 1:18: "Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast"
Judges 14:19: "came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, thirty men of"
1 Samuel 6:17: "one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron"
2 Samuel 1:20: "publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,"
Jeremiah 25:20: "the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,"
Jeremiah 47:5: "is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off of their valley: how long"
Jeremiah 47:7: "seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, the sea shore? there"
Amos 1:8: "from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, from Ashkelon, mine hand"
Zephaniah 2:4: "Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: Ashdod at the noon day,"
Zephaniah 2:7: "they shall feed in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD"
Zechariah 9:5: " Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron;"
Zechariah 9:5: "shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited."