Strong's Hebrew · H1880

דֶּשֶׁן

deshen · deh'-shen

ashes, fatness.

Definition

the fat; abstractly fatness, i.e. (figuratively) abundance; specifically the (fatty) ashes of sacrifices

Derivation

from H1878 (דָּשֵׁן);

Appears 15 times in Scripture

Leviticus 6:10

And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside it.

Psalms 65:11

You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.

Judges 9:9

But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’

Leviticus 4:12

all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.

Leviticus 1:16

And he is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.

1 Kings 13:3

That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”

Leviticus 6:11

Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.

1 Kings 13:5

And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

Job 36:16

Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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