עָשָׁןʻâshân

smoke

Pronunciation: aw-shawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6227

Meanings

1.

a. of burning city (Joshua 8:20; Joshua 8:21; Judges 20:40)

b. in figurative of destruction of Israel (Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 34:10)

c. simile of dust-cloud (Song of Solomon 3:6; Hosea 13:3; Isaiah 51:6)

d. breath of crocodile (Job 41:12)

2.

a. attending theophany (Genesis 15:17; Exodus 19:18; Isaiah 6:4)

b. of God's anger (2 Samuel 22:9; Psalms 18:9; Isaiah 65:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 25 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 15:17 After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.
  • Exodus 19:18 All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.
  • Joshua 8:20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the town was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.
  • Joshua 8:21 When Joshua and all the other Israelites saw that the ambush had succeeded and that smoke was rising from the town, they turned and attacked the men of Ai.
  • Judges 20:38 They had arranged to send up a large cloud of smoke from the town as a signal.
  • Judges 20:40 But when the warriors of Benjamin looked behind them and saw the smoke rising into the sky from every part of the town,
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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).