אַשְׁפֹּת
ash.pot
“Dung (Gate)”
Definition
a heap of rubbish or filth
or אַשְׁפּוֹת; or שְׁפֹת; (contraction) plural of a noun of the same form as H827 (אַשְׁפָּה), from H8192 (שָׁפָה) (in the sense of scraping);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
אַשְׁפֹּת appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He raises the poor from the dustand lifts the needy from the ash heap.He seats them among princesand bestows on them a throne of honor.For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s,and upon them He has set the world.
Those who once ate delicaciesare destitute in the streets;those brought up in crimsonhuddle in ash heaps.
Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.
So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it, installed its doors, bolts, and bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
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