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# עָשָׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6228

**Ashan** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ashan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6228/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשָׁן²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6228/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Shephelah of Judah Jos 15:42, in Simeon according to 19:7; 1 Ch 4:32, Levit. city 6:44; Ασαν, etc.; = בּוֹר עָשָׁן, q.v. p. 92 supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ashan (4).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.42/#tree)

לִבְנָ֥ה וָעֶ֖תֶר וְעָשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* Libnah and Ether and Ashan

*JPS 1917:* Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan;

[Joshua 19:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.7/#tree)

עַ֥יִן ׀ רִמּ֖וֹן וָעֶ֣תֶר וְעָשָׁ֑ן עָרִ֥ים אַרְבַּ֖ע וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* Ain Rimmon and Ether and Ashan cities four and villages their

*JPS 1917:* Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6228.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6228/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).