Gaza
az.zah is a Hebrew place-name marking a city and its surrounding territory in boundary lists, conflicts, and pronouncements.
The attested forms are proper nouns naming a place: they mark a boundary point and its settlements or territory, locate actions involving Philistines and other peoples, and identify the city in pronouncements of disaster.
Senses in use
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Place-name in geographic, narrative, and prophetic settings · dominant
All supplied tokens are tagged as proper nouns. In Genesis 10:19 the APB renders a border extending “as far as Gaza,” while Joshua 15:47 renders the place with “its daughters and its villages”; in Judges 16:21 it is the destination to which Samson is brought, and Amos 1:7 renders fire sent into its wall and citadels.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the proper noun as “Gaza” in boundary descriptions, narratives, and pronouncements. In 1 Kings 5:4, however, the supplied translation has no visible corresponding place-name; It cannot establish a separate rendering for that token.