Ashdod or Azotus = "a stronghold"

1. one of the five chief cities of the Philistines, lying between Ashkelon and Jamnia and near the Mediterranean

himself, herself, themselves, itself

he, she, it

the same

but, moreover, and, etc.

to go through, pass through

1. to go, walk, journey, pass through a place

2. to travel the road which leads through a place, go, pass, travel through a region

to go different places

1. of people, to go abroad

2. of a report, to spread, go abroad

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

to come

1. of persons

   1. to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving and of those returning

   2. to appear, make one's appearance, come before the public

metaph.

1. to come into being, arise, come forth, show itself, find place or influence

2. be established, become known, to come (fall) into or unto

to go, to follow one

to bring good news, to announce glad tidings

1. used in the OT of any kind of good news

   1. of the joyful tidings of God's kindness, in particular, of the Messianic blessings

2. in the NT used especially of the glad tidings of the coming kingdom of God, and of the salvation to be obtained in it through Christ, and of what relates to this salvation

3. glad tidings are brought to one, one has glad tidings proclaimed to him

4. to proclaim glad tidings

   1. instruct (men) concerning the things that pertain to Christian salvation

to come upon, hit upon, to meet with

1. after searching, to find a thing sought

2. without previous search, to find (by chance), to fall in with

3. those who come or return to a place

to find by enquiry, thought, examination, scrutiny, observation, to find out by practice and experience

1. to see, learn, discover, understand

2. to be found i.e. to be seen, be present

3. to be discovered, recognised, detected, to show one's self out, of one's character or state as found out by others (men, God, or both)

4. to get knowledge of, come to know, God

to find out for one's self, to acquire, get, obtain, procure

till, until

and, also, even, indeed, but

Caesarea = "severed"

1. Caesarea of Philippi was situated at the foot of Lebanon near the sources of the Jordan in Gaulanitis, and formerly called Paneas; but afterward being rebuilt by Philip the tetrarch, it was called by him Caesarea, in honour of Tiberias Caesar; subsequently called Neronias by Agrippa II, in honour of Nero.

2. Caesarea of Palestine was built near the Mediterranean by Herod the Great on the site of Strabo's Tower, between Joppa and Dora. It was provided with a magnificent harbour and had conferred upon it the name of Caesarea, in honour of Augustus. It was the residence of Roman procurators, and the majority of its inhabitants were Greeks.

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

individually

1. each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything

collectively

1. some of all types

a city

1. one's native city, the city in which one lives

2. the heavenly Jerusalem

   1. the abode of the blessed in heaven

   2. of the visible capital in the heavenly kingdom, to come down to earth after the renovation of the world by fire

3. the inhabitants of a city

Philip = "lover of horses"

1. an apostle of Christ

2. an evangelist and one of the seven deacons of the Jerusalem church

3. tetrarch of Trachonitis, was brother to Herod Antipas, by the father's, but not by the mother's side. Philip was born of Cleopatra, of Jerusalem, and Herod of Malthace, a Samaritan: he died in the twentieth year of Tiberias, five years after his mention in Lk. 3:1. He built Caesarea Philippi. His step brother Herod Antipas, married his wife unlawfully. (Gill)

4. see 2542, Caesarea Philippi