ash.do.di designates an Ashdod-associated person or group, including men and women.

The attested forms function as gentilicial designations for people associated with Ashdod: masculine singular and plural forms occur in a territorial list and in accounts involving a group, while feminine plural forms identify women.

1. Ashdod-associated people · dominant

   The masculine plural forms identify a group in the events surrounding Dagon and the ark in 1 Samuel 5:3 and under the LORD's heavy hand in 1 Samuel 5:6; the APB renders them “Ashdodites.” The singular masculine form occurs within the list of Philistine rulers in Joshua 13:3, while the feminine plural forms identify women in Nehemiah 13:23; in Nehemiah 4:1 the masculine plural occurs in the verse about opposition to the wall, though the APB does not explicitly render it.

   1 Samuel 5:31 Samuel 5:6Joshua 13:3Nehemiah 13:23Nehemiah 4:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB renders the masculine plural as “Ashdodites” in 1 Samuel 5:3 and 1 Samuel 5:6, presents the singular in Joshua 13:3 as “Ashdod,” and describes the feminine plural as “women of Ashdod” in Nehemiah 13:23. In Nehemiah 4:1 it does not explicitly reflect the form.