ash.qe.lon is a proper place-name appearing in accounts of capture, travel, public announcement, and judgment.

The supplied occurrences consistently use the noun proper form as a place-name: it is named among neighboring places, as a destination or site of action, and as the object of announcements of devastation or loss of inhabitants.

1. A named place in narrative and prophetic clauses · dominant

   The noun proper form identifies a location in lists and actions: in Judges 14:19 the APB renders that someone "went down to Ashkelon" and struck thirty men, while Judges 1:18 names it with its territory among places Judah captured. In 2 Samuel 1:20 it is the location whose streets are not to receive an announcement; Jeremiah 47:5, Zephaniah 2:4, and Zechariah 9:5 place it within pronouncements of destruction, desolation, or lack of inhabitants.

   Judges 14:19Judges 1:182 Samuel 1:20Jeremiah 47:5Zephaniah 2:4Zechariah 9:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term consistently as a place-name, including "the streets of Ashkelon," "against Ashkelon," and "the houses of Ashkelon." These English phrases show the clauses' presentation rather than a separate translation value for the noun proper form.