Strong's Lexicon

H666

H666 — אֲפֵר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewaphernoun mascOccurrences: 2TWOT: 151a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H666
Word:אֲפֵר
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from the same as H665 (in the sense of covering)
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:2
Transliteration:apher
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:af-ayr'
Meaning:1. a turban
KJV Renderings:ashes.

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אֲפֵר noun [masculine] covering, bandage (Assyrian ipru , covering ZimBP 95, êpartu , garment, Id.ib. & DlPr 54) עַלעֵֿינָיו ׳ א 1Kgs 20:38 compare 1Kgs 20:41 .


אֶפְרֹחַ see פרח .


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אפר (eh’-pher)

Numbers 19:9

KJV: 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.
EHCC: the ashes of the heifer,

2 Samuel 13:19

KJV: 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.
EHCC: Tamar put ashes on her head,

Esther 4:1

KJV: 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;
EHCC: put on sackcloth with ashes,

Job 2:8

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

Job 13:12

KJV: Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
EHCC: Your remembrances (are) like unto ashes,

Job 30:19

KJV: He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
EHCC: 1 am become like dust and ashes, .

Job 42:6

KJV: Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
EHCC: repent in dust and ashes.

Psalms 102:9

KJV: For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
EHCC: €10). For I have eaten ashes like bread,

Psalms 147:16

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

Isaiah 44:20

KJV: 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?
EHCC: He feedeth on ashes:

Isaiah 58:5

KJV: 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?a day…: or, to afflict his soul for a day?
EHCC: to spread sackcloth and ashes

Isaiah 61:3

KJV: 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.
EHCC: to give unto them beauty for ashes,

Jeremiah 6:98

EHCC: wallow thyself in ashes:

Lamentations 3:36

KJV: To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.approveth not: or, seeth not
EHCC: he hath covered me with ashes.

Lamentations 28:18

EHCC: 1 will bring thee to ashes

Daniel 9:3

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

Jonah 3:6

KJV: 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.
EHCC: and sat in ashes.

Malachi 4:3

KJV: 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.
EHCC: (3:21).for they shall be ashes
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