H665 אֵפֶר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 22 KJV occurrences
אֵפֶר
ʼêpher · ay'-fer
Definition
ashes
KJV Renderings
ashes.
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root meaning to bestrew;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 22)
- Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
- Numbers 19:10And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
- Esther 4:3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- Job 30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- Psalms 147:16He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
- Isaiah 58:5Is 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?
- Lamentations 3:16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- Daniel 9:3¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: