1) ashes 2) (CLBL) worthlessness (fig.)
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H665 — אֵ֫פֶר
e.pher · ashes · Hebrew/Aramaic
20 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 18:27 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—Numbers 19:9 · אֵ֣פֶרThen a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.Numbers 19:10 · אֵ֤פֶרThe man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.2 Samuel 13:19 · אֵ֙פֶר֙And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying aloud.Esther 4:1 · וָאֵ֑פֶרWhen Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.Esther 4:3 · וָאֵ֔פֶרIn every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.Job 2:8 · הָאֵֽפֶר׃And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.Job 13:12 · אֵ֑פֶרYour maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.Job 30:19 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.Job 42:6 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃ פTherefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”Psalm 102:9 · אֵ֭פֶרFor I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tearsPsalm 147:16 · כָּאֵ֥פֶרHe spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;Isaiah 44:20 · אֵ֔פֶרHe feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”Isaiah 58:5 · וָאֵ֙פֶר֙Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?Isaiah 61:3 · אֵ֗פֶרto console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.Jeremiah 6:26 · בָאֵ֔פֶרO daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.Lamentations 3:16 · בָּאֵֽפֶר׃He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.Daniel 9:3 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.Jonah 3:6 · הָאֵֽפֶר׃When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Malachi 4:3 · אֵ֔פֶרThen you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.