HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3565
בּוֹר עָשָׁן
kor a.shan — Bor-ashan
§ Chor-ashan = "furnace of smoke" a town in Judah
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Chor-ashan
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Smoking furnace, one of the places where “David himself and his men were wont to haunt” (1 Sam. 30:30, 31). It is probably identical with Ashan (Josh. 15:42; 19:7), a Simeonite city in the Negeb, i.e., the south, belonging to Judah. The word ought, according to another reading, to be “Bor-ashan.”
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.