Word: OELWY@

Pronounce: ash-kel-one'

Strong: H831

Orig: probably from 8254 in the sense of weighing-place (i.e. mart); Ashkelon, a place in Palestine:--Ashkelon, Askalon. H8254

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Askelon or Ashkelon = "the fire of infamy: I shall be weighed"

1) a maritime city of the Philistines, southwest of Jerusalem