Smoke
עָשָׁןStrong’s H6227ashan (a-shan)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashan is the Hebrew word usually translated “smoke”, “smoke its” and “smoke of”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.”
Meaning
- Smokein metaphor, simile · smoke (fig.)
How it's translated
- smoke 12
- in smoke 3
- smoke its 2
- smoke of 2
- and like smoke 2
- like smoke of 1
- the smoke 1
- and smoke 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 7
- Psalms 4
- Joshua 2
- Judges 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Joshua 8:20And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
- Joshua 8:21And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
- Judges 20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
- Judges 20:40But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
- 2 Samuel 22:9There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Hebrew dictionary
עָשָׁן ashan · smoke
1) smoke 1a) smoke 1b) in metaphor, simile 1c) smoke (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “smoke” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SMOKE, noun
- The exhalation, visble vapor or substance that escapes or is expelled in combustion from the substance burning.
- Vapor; water exhalations.
All definitions and other forms of “smoke”
SMOKE, verb intransitive
- To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage; in Scripture. Deuteronomy 29:20“The anger of the Lord and his jealousy snall smoke against that man” Deuteronomy 29:20
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To smell or hunt out; to suspect.
- To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth and puffing it out.
- TO suffer; to be punished.
SMOKE, verb transitive
- To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to scent, medicate or dry by smoke; as, to smoke infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
- To smell out; to find out.
- TO sneer at; to ridicule to the face.
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.