Ashes
דֶּ֫שֶׁןStrong’s H1880deshen (de-shen)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Deshen is the Hebrew word usually translated “fatty ash”, “fatness” and “fatness my”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:”
Meaning
- Fat ashes, fatnessfatness · fat ashes (ashes of victims, mixed with the fat)
How it's translated
- the fatty ash 7
- fatness 3
- fatness my 1
- from fatness of 1
- and fatness 1
- in fatness 1
- and the fatty ash 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Psalms 3
- 1 Kings 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Judges 1
- Job 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 4:12Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
- Leviticus 6:10And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
- Leviticus 6:11And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
- Judges 9:9But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- 1 Kings 13:3And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
- 1 Kings 13:5The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
דֶּ֫שֶׁן deshen · ashes
1) fat ashes, fatness 1a) fatness 1a1) of fertility 1a2) of blessing (fig.) 1b) fat ashes (ashes of victims, mixed with the fat)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ashes” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ASH'ES, noun
plural Without the singular number.
- The earthy particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion; as of wood or coal.
- The remains of the human body when burnt.
- In scripture, ashes is used to denote vileness, meanness, frailty, or humiliation.“I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes” Job 42:6
All definitions and other forms of “ashes”
ASH'-FIRE, noun
A low fire used in chimical operations.
ASH'-HOLE, noun
A repository for ashes; the lower part of a furnace.
ASH'-LAR, noun
Common or free stones, as they come from the quarry, of different lengths, breadths and thicknesses.
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.