Slope
אֲשֵׁדָהStrong’s H0794ashedah (a-she-dah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashedah is the Hebrew word usually translated “slopes” and “on the slopes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.”
Meaning
- Foundation, slope
How it's translated
- and the slopes 1
- and on the slopes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
אֲשֵׁדָה ashedah · slope
foundation, slope
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slope” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLOPE, adjective
[This word contains the elements of Latin labor, lapsus, and Eng. slip; also of Latin levo. Eng. lift. I know not whether it originally signified ascending or descending, probably the latter.]
Inclined or inclining form a horizontal direction; forming an angle with the plane of the horizon; as slope hills. [Little used.]
All definitions and other forms of “slope”
SLOPE, noun
- An oblique direction; a line or direction inclining from a horizontal line; properly, a direction downwards.
- An oblique direction in general; a direction forming an angle with a perpendicular or other right line.
- A declivity; any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon; also, an acclivity, as every declivity must be also an acclivity.
SLOPE, verb transitive
To form with a slope; to form to declivity or obliquity; to direct obliquely; to incline; as, to slope the ground in a garde; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
SLOPE, verb intransitive
To take an oblique direction; to be declivous or inclined.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.