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# עָשָׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6227

**smoke** — used 25 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

smoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6227/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשָׁן: n.m. smoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6227/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 19:18 smoke;—abs. ע׳ Ju 20:38 +, cstr. עֲשַׁן Jos 8:20, 21; עֶ֫שֶׁן Ex 19:18; sf. עֲשָׁנוֹ Ex 19:18, עֲשָׁנָהּ Is 34:10;— of burning city Jos 8:20, 21; Ju 20:38, 40, cf. Na 2:14; heralding a foe Is 14:31. in fig. of destruction of Isr. Is 9:17, Edom 34:10. sim. of dust-cloud Ct 3:6; of transitoriness Ho 13:3 Is 51:6 ψ 37:20 (reading בֶּע׳, as 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙), 68:3; 102:4; sim. of the unpleasant, Pr 10:26. breath of crocodile Jb 41:12. attending theoph., תַּנּוּר ע׳ Gn 15:17; of mt. Ex 19:18, cf. sim. כְּע׳ הַכִּבְשָׁן v 18; Is 6:4, also 4:5 Jo 3:3. of God’s anger, ע׳ בְּאַפּוֹ 2 S 22:9 = ψ 18:9; so prob. also Is 65:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: smoke (15); of smoke (5); the smoke (4).

## In the verses

[Job 41:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/#tree)

מִ֭נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן כְּד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְאַגְמֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* from nostrils its it.goes.forth smoke like a.cooking.pot blown.upon and bulrush\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.

[Psalms 102:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.4/#tree)

כִּֽי־כָל֣וּ בְעָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑י וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י כְּמוֹ־קֵ֥דמוֹ־קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.have.come.to.an.end in smoke days my and bones my like a.hearth they.have.been.burned

*JPS 1917:* For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6227.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6227/): 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).