דֶּשֶׁןdeshen
fatness, fat ashes
Pronunciation: deh'-shen · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1880
Meanings
1. fatness (Judges 9:9; Psalms 63:6; Psalms 65:12)
2. fat ashes (Leviticus 1:16; Leviticus 4:12; Leviticus 6:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 15 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 1:16 The priest must also remove the crop and the feathers and throw them in the ashes on the east side of the altar.
- Leviticus 4:12 and carry it away to a place outside the camp that is ceremonially clean, the place where the ashes are dumped. There, on the ash heap, he will burn it on a wood fire.
- Leviticus 6:10 In the morning, after the priest on duty has put on his official linen clothing and linen undergarments, he must clean out the ashes of the burnt offering and put them beside the altar.
- Leviticus 6:11 Then he must take off these garments, change back into his regular clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.
- Judges 9:9 But the olive tree refused, saying, ‘Should I quit producing the olive oil that blesses both God and people, just to wave back and forth over the trees?’
- 1 Kings 13:3 That same day the man of God gave a sign to prove his message. He said, “The Lord has promised to give this sign: This altar will split apart, and its ashes will be poured out on the ground.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).