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Gaza
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Gaza names 2 things on this site
Verses
21 results- VerseJudges 1:18And Judah also captured Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron—each with its territory.
- VerseAmos 1:7So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.
- Verse2 Kings 18:8He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.
- VerseJoshua 10:41Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.
- VerseJudges 16:1One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
People
2 results- PersonSamsonThe Nazirite judge of supernatural strength and unguarded appetites; betrayed by Delilah, blinded at Gaza, he slew more in his death between the pillars than in his life.
- PersonPhilip the EvangelistOne of the seven, and the man who carried the gospel across its first boundary: a city of Samaria, then a chariot on the Gaza road where he preached Jesus to an Ethiopian…
Places
2 resultsWords (Strong's)
3 results- WordG1048 Γάζα · Gáza (Greek)Gazah (i.e. Azzah), a place in Palestine. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG1047 γάζα · gaza (Greek)a treasure. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH5804 עַזָּה · ʻAzzâh (Hebrew)Azzah, a place in Palestine. The Hebrew word stands 21 times in the original text.
Topics
2 resultsProphecies
1 resultVoices
3 results- VoiceProcopius of GazaProcopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…
- VoiceDorotheos of GazaDorotheos was born about 505, probably at Antioch, into a wealthy family, and given the best education available. He says himself that he came to love books so much that he…
- VoiceVenerable Barsanuphius and John the ProphetBarsanuphius and John lived in the first half of the sixth century at a monastery near Gaza, in Palestine, run by an abbot named Seridos. They are almost always named together…
Apocrypha (study resources)
3 results- Study resource1 Maccabees 11:61From whence he went to Gaza, but they of Gaza shut him out; wherefore he laid siege unto it, and burned the suburbs thereof with fire, and spoiled them.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 13:43In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it round about; he made also an engine of war, and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower, and took it.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 11:62Afterward, when they of Gaza made supplication unto Jonathan, he made peace with them, and took the sons of their chief men for hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem, and passed…