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׃Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.Numbers 19:9 · אֵ֣פֶר“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.Numbers 19:10 · אֵ֤פֶרHe who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.2 Samuel 13:19 · אֵ֙פֶר֙Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.Esther 4:1 · וָאֵ֑פֶרNow when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.Esther 4:3 · וָאֵ֔פֶרIn every province, wherever 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 2:8 · הָאֵֽפֶר׃He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.Job 13:12 · אֵ֑פֶרYour memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.Job 30:19 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.Job 42:6 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃ פTherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”Psalm 102:9 · אֵ֭פֶרFor I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,Psalm 147:16 · כָּאֵ֥פֶרHe gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.Isaiah 44:20 · אֵ֔פֶרHe feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”Isaiah 58:5 · וָאֵ֙פֶר֙Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?Isaiah 61:3 · אֵ֗פֶרto appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.Jeremiah 6:26 · בָאֵ֔פֶרDaughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.Lamentations 3:16 · בָּאֵֽפֶר׃He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.Daniel 9:3 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.Jonah 3:6 · הָאֵֽפֶר׃The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Malachi 4:3 · אֵ֔פֶרYou shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.