H665: אֵפֶר

Extended definition

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H665 is translated

• ashes ×20
• the ashes of ×2

Bible verses with H665 (ʼêpher)

ʼêpher appears in 22 verses.

• Genesis 18:27

  And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

• Numbers 19:9

  And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

• Numbers 19:10

  And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

• 2 Samuel 13:19

  And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

• Esther 4:1

  When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

• Esther 4:3

  And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

• Job 2:8

  And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

• Job 13:12

  Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

• Job 30:19

  He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

• Job 42:6

  Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

• Psalms 102:9

  For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

• Psalms 147:16

  He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

• Isaiah 44:20

  He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

• Isaiah 58:5

  Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

• Isaiah 61:3

  To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

• Jeremiah 6:26

  O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

• Lamentations 3:16

  He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

• Ezekiel 27:30

  And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

• Ezekiel 28:18

  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

• Daniel 9:3

  And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

• Jonah 3:6

  For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

• Malachi 4:3

  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

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