עַזָּה
ʻAzzâh · az-zaw'
Azzah, a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H5794 (עַז); strong;
Azzah, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Azzah, Gaza.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to cut, to sustain › to reveal, behold
To see and know that works to cut, to sustain that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עַזָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
21 occurrences · 21 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- gaza4 · 19%
- unto gaza2 · 10%
- even unto gaza2 · 10%
- to gaza2 · 10%
- for gaza2 · 10%
- of gaza2 · 10%
- even unto azzah1 · 5%
- only in gaza1 · 5%
- even to azzah1 · 5%
- thereof, unto gaza1 · 5%
- and azzah1 · 5%
- upon gaza1 · 5%
- from gaza1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.