ash.dod is the proper name of a place named in territorial descriptions, its inhabitants, and events involving Philistine cities.

The term consistently functions as a proper place name: it marks a locality with villages and territory, identifies its inhabitants, and locates military, prophetic, and cultic events. The supplied morphology identifies every occurrence as a proper noun, while the surrounding clauses variously speak of Ashdod’s people, walls, citadels, territory, and fate.

1. Proper name of a place · dominant

   In Joshua 15:47 the APB renders a place listed with “its daughters and its villages,” while Joshua 15:46 places nearby territory along its side. In 1 Samuel 5:1 the ark is brought there, and 2 Chronicles 26:6 refers both to its wall and to cities built there; the same proper-noun form also locates announcements on its citadels in Amos 3:9 and an attack and capture in Isaiah 20:1.

   Joshua 15:46Joshua 15:471 Samuel 5:12 Chronicles 26:6Amos 3:9Isaiah 20:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the term as “Ashdod,” including references to its people, territory, wall, villages, and citadels. These contextual expressions show the verse-level presentation rather than separate renderings of the term.