Ashdod = "powerful"

1. a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean Sea west from Jerusalem, modern Esdud

exaltation, majesty, pride

1. majesty, exaltation, excellence

   1. of nations

   2. of God

   3. of the Jordan

2. pride, arrogance (bad sense)

to dwell, remain, sit, abide

1. (Qal)

   1. to sit, sit down

   2. to be set

   3. to remain, stay

   4. to dwell, have one's abode

2. (Niphal) to be inhabited

3. (Piel) to set, place

4. (Hiphil)

   1. to cause to sit

   2. to cause to abide, set

   3. to cause to dwell

   4. to cause (cities) to be inhabited

   5. to marry (give an dwelling to)

5. (Hophal)

   1. to be inhabited

   2. to make to dwell

to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant

1. (Qal)

   1. to cut off

      1. to cut off a body part, behead

   2. to cut down

   3. to hew

   4. to cut or make a covenant

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be cut off

   2. to be cut down

   3. to be chewed

   4. to be cut off, fail

3. (Pual)

   1. to be cut off

   2. to be cut down

4. (Hiphil)

   1. to cut off

   2. to cut off, destroy

   3. to cut down, destroy

   4. to take away

   5. to permit to perish

5. (Hophal) cut off

bastard, child of incest, illegitimate child

1. bastard

2. mixed population (fig.)

3. born of a Jewish father and a heathen mother or visa versa

Philistine = "immigrants"

1. an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan