{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H831",
  "lemma": "אַשְׁקְלוֹן",
  "transliteration": "ʼAshqᵉlôwn",
  "definition": "Ashkelon, a place in Palestine",
  "kjv": "Ashkelon, Askalon.",
  "occurrences": 12,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H8254",
      "lemma": "שָׁקַל",
      "transliteration": "shâqal",
      "meaning": "to suspend or poise",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H8254"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אַשְׁקְלוֹן n.pr.loc. a city of the Philistines"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Judges 1:18",
      "text": "Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 14:19",
      "text": "The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:17",
      "text": "These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD: for Ashdod one, for…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 1:20",
      "text": "Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 25:20",
      "text": "and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/25?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 47:5",
      "text": "Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/47?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 47:7",
      "text": "“How can you be quiet, since the LORD has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/47?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Amos 1:8",
      "text": "I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/1?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Zephaniah 2:4",
      "text": "For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/2?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Zephaniah 2:7",
      "text": "The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/2?v=7"
    }
  ],
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