# H831 אַשְׁקְלוֹן

אַשְׁקְלוֹן (ʼAshqᵉlôwn), Strong’s H831: Ashkelon, a place in Palestine KJV: Ashkelon, Askalon.. Occurs 12 times.

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*ʼAshqᵉlôwn* — Ashkelon, a place in Palestine

KJV: Ashkelon, Askalon.

Derived from [שָׁקַל shâqal](https://besorah.bible/word/H8254) (to suspend or poise)

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אַשְׁקְלוֹן n.pr.loc. a city of the Philistines

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 1:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=18) — Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
- [Judges 14:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=19) — The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their…
- [1 Samuel 6:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=17) — These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD: for Ashdod one, for…
- [2 Samuel 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=20) — Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest…
- [Jeremiah 25:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/25?v=20) — and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron…
- [Jeremiah 47:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/47?v=5) — Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself?
- [Jeremiah 47:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/47?v=7) — “How can you be quiet, since the LORD has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has…
- [Amos 1:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/1?v=8) — I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against…
- [Zephaniah 2:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/2?v=4) — For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted…
- [Zephaniah 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/2?v=7) — The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will…