Refuse
אַשְׁפֹּתStrong’s H0830ashpot (ash-pot)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashpot is the Hebrew word usually translated “dung”, “from ash heap” and “ash heaps”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.”
Meaning
- Dung( Gate) in Jerusalem
- Ash heap, refuse heap, dung-hill
How it's translated
- the dung 4
- from ash heap 2
- ash heaps 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 4
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Lamentations 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 2:13And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
- Nehemiah 3:13The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
- Nehemiah 3:14But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
- Nehemiah 12:31Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
- Psalms 113:7He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
- Lamentations 4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Hebrew dictionary
אַשְׁפֹּת ashpot · Dung (Gate)
Dung( Gate) in Jerusalem
אַשְׁפֹּת ashpot · refuse
ash heap, refuse heap, dung-hill
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “refuse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REFU'SE, verb transitive
s as z. [Latin recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause. The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse ]
- To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded.“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border” Numbers 20:21
- To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.“If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand -” Jeremiah 25:28
- To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof.“The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner” Psalms 118:22
All definitions and other forms of “refuse”
REFU'SE, verb intransitive
s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply.
REF'USE, adjective
REF'USE, noun
That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste matter.
REFU'SE, noun
Refusal. obsolete
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.