אַשְׁקְלוֺן proper name, of a location a city of the Philistines (Assyrian Isqaluna COT^Gloss Dl^{Pa 290}; Phoenician adjective, of a people compare below) Judges 1:18; Judges 14:19; 1 Samuel 6:17; 2 Samuel 1:20; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:5,7; Amos 1:8; Zephaniah 2:4,7; Zechariah 9:5 (twice in verse); on the Mediterranean Sea, south of west from Jerusalem, modern `Asqalân, Survey^{iii. 237 f.} (with plan); compare also ZPV^{ii. 164 f}.