To gleam
עָשַׁתStrong’s H6245ashat (a-shat)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashat is the Hebrew word usually translated “have become smooth” and “give thought”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to be smooth, be shiny, gleam
- (Hithpael) to think
How it's translated
- they have become smooth 1
- he will give thought 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Jonah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָשַׁת ashat · to gleam
(Qal) to be smooth, be shiny, gleam
עָשַׁת ashat · to think
(Hithpael) to think Aramaic equivalent: a.shit (עֲשִׁת "to plan" H6246)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gleam” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GLEAM, noun
[Latin flamma.]
The radical sense is to throw, to shoot or dart, and it may be of the same family as clamo, clamor, a shoot of the voice.
- A shoot of light; a beam; a ray; a small stream of light.
- Brightness; splendor.
All definitions and other forms of “gleam”
GLEAM, verb intransitive
To shoot or dart, as rays of light. At the dawn light gleams in the east.
- To shine; to cast light.
- To flash; to spread a flood of light. [Less common.]
- Among falconers, to disgorge filth, as a hawk.
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.