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title: אַשְׁפֹּת — ash-heap · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַשְׁפֹּת (830), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: ash-heap. BDB 1906: ash-heap refuse-heap, dung-hill. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַשְׁפֹּת

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«אַשְׁפֹּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ash-heap** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 830 · **BDB:** אַשְׁפֹּת²

### Glosses

the.dung (4); ash.heap (2); ash.heaps (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ash-heap [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/830/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

ash-heap refuse-heap, dung-hill [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/830/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ash-heap (?), refuse-heap, dung-hill (prob. orig. fire-place stone, cf. Arabic sub √);—א׳ abs. as beggars’ resting-place 1 S 2:8 = ψ 113:7 (both ‖ עָפָר; cf. Jb 2:8 Wetzstap. De); so pl. אַשְׁפַּתּוֹת La 4:5; שַׁעַר הָאַשְׁפֹּת Ne 2:13; 3:14; 12:31 = שׁ׳ הָֽשְׁפוֹת 3:13 (Ges§ 35 d).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַשְׁפֹּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/830/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 113:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.113.7/)

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מְקִֽימִ֣י מֵעָפָ֣ר דָּ֑ל מֵֽ֝אַשְׁפֹּ֗ת יָרִ֥ים אֶבְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].raising from.\[the\] dust \[the\].poor from.\[the\] ash.heap he.lifts.up \[the\].needy

*JPS 1917:* Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill;

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[Lamentations 4:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.5/)

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הָאֹֽכְלִים֙ לְמַ֣עֲדַנִּ֔ים נָשַׁ֖מּוּ בַּחוּצ֑וֹת הָאֱמֻנִים֙ עֲלֵ֣י תוֹלָ֔ע חִבְּק֖וּ אַשְׁפַּתּֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* \[those who\].ate (to) delicacies they.are.desolate in the streets \[those who.were\].brought.up on crimson they.have.embraced ash.heaps

*JPS 1917:* They that did feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

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