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Lexicon :: Strong's H5804 - ʿazzâ

Aa
עַזָּה
Transliteration
ʿazzâ
Pronunciation
az-zaw'
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Part of Speech
proper locative feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

עַזָּה ʻAzzâh, az-zaw'; feminine of H5794; strong; Azzah, a place in Palestine:—Azzah, Gaza.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x

The KJV translates Strong's H5804 in the following manner: Gaza (18x), Azzah (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x
The KJV translates Strong's H5804 in the following manner: Gaza (18x), Azzah (3x).

  1. Azzah = "the strong"

    1. another name for 'Gaza', a city of the Philistines located in the extreme southwest of Palestine close to the Mediterranean

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַזָּה ʻAzzâh, az-zaw'; feminine of H5794; strong; Azzah, a place in Palestine:—Azzah, Gaza.
STRONGS H5804: Abbreviations
† עַזָּה proper name, of a location Gaza, Γαζα (Assyrian Ḫazzutu, etc., COTi. 97 DlPa 290, Tel Amarna Ḫazati, Azzati Wkl38 *; Egyptian Gaḏatu WMMAs. u. Eur. 87, 96, 159, 392; Greek Version of the LXX Γαζα, so JosephusAnt. xiii. 5, 5, etc.; Herod.ii, 159; iii. 5 Κάδυτις); — Philistine city (modern bdb073802, Ghazze, Razze), approximately Latitude 31 degrees; 3 minutes North, Longitude 34 degrees 28 minutes East, approximately 50 miles west-southwest from Jerusalem, near the sea (RobBR ii. 36 ff. GASmGeogr. 181 ff. BuhlGeogr. 190 f.), Judges 16:1, 21 (both עַזָּ֑תָה), southernmost of the famous five cities, Genesis 10:19 (J), Judges 6:4; 1 Kings 5:4; 2 Kings 18:8, compare Deuteronomy 2:23; Joshua 10:41 (D); also Joshua 11:22 (D), Joshua 15:47 (P), Judges 1:18; 1 Samuel 6:17; Amos 1:6, 7; Zephaniah 2:4; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:1, 5; Zechariah 9:5 (twice in verse); — On commercial importance see DHMB und S 989 GattZPV vii (1884), 1ff., 293 ff.; viii (1885), 69 ff., 179 ff. — For עַזָּה 1 Chronicles 7:28 van d. H., read עַיָּה Baer Ginsb (which see), Be Oettli Kau KitHpt.; see עַי.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:19

Deuteronomy

2:23

Joshua

10:41; 11:22; 15:47

Judges

1:18; 6:4; 16:1; 16:21

1 Samuel

6:17

1 Kings

5:4

2 Kings

18:8

1 Chronicles

7:28

Jeremiah

25:20; 47:1; 47:5

Amos

1:6; 1:7

Zephaniah

2:4

Zechariah

9:5

H5804

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Strong's Number H5804 matches the Hebrew עַזָּה (ʿazzâ),
which occurs 21 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:19 - Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23 - And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:41 - Joshua overcame them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:22 - Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:47 - Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:18 - Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:17 - Now these are the gold images which the Philistines sent as a sin-offering to the Lord; one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:20 - And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:1 - The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines, before Pharaoh's attack on Gaza.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:5 - The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:6 - These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:7 - And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses:

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:4 - For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:5 - Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.
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