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׃And Abraham answereth and saith, ‘Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I—dust and ashes;Numbers 19:9 · אֵ֣פֶרAnd a clean man hath gathered the ashes of the cow, and hath placed at the outside of the camp, in a clean place, and it hath become to the company of the sons of Israel a charge for waters of separation—it is a cleansing;Numbers 19:10 · אֵ֤פֶרand he who is gathering the ashes of the heifer hath washed his garments, and is unclean till the evening; and it hath been to the sons of Israel, and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for a statute age-during.2 Samuel 13:19 · אֵ֙פֶר֙And Tamar taketh ashes for her head, and the long coat that is on her she hath rent, and putteth her hand on her head, and goeth, going on and crying;Esther 4:1 · וָאֵ֑פֶרAnd Mordecai hath known all that hath been done, and Mordecai rendeth his garments, and putteth on sackcloth and ashes, and goeth forth into the midst of the city and crieth—a cry loud and bitter,Esther 4:3 · וָאֵ֔פֶרAnd in every province and province, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, a great mourning have the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and lamenting: sackcloth and ashes are spread for many.Job 2:8 · הָאֵֽפֶר׃And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.Job 13:12 · אֵ֑פֶרYour remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.Job 30:19 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.Job 42:6 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃ פTherefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.Psalm 102:9 · אֵ֭פֶרBecause ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,Psalm 147:16 · כָּאֵ֥פֶרWho is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.Isaiah 44:20 · אֵ֔פֶרFeeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: ‘Is there not a lie in my right hand?’Isaiah 58:5 · וָאֵ֙פֶר֙Like this is the fast that I choose? The day of a man’s afflicting his soul? To bow as a reed his head, And sackcloth and ashes spread out? This dost thou call a fast, And a desirable day—to Jehovah?Isaiah 61:3 · אֵ֗פֶרTo appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, ‘Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah—to be beautified.’Jeremiah 6:26 · בָאֵ֔פֶרO daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.Lamentations 3:16 · בָּאֵֽפֶר׃And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.Daniel 9:3 · וָאֵֽפֶר׃and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.Jonah 3:6 · הָאֵֽפֶר׃seeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,Malachi 4:3 · אֵ֔פֶרAnd ye have trodden down the wicked, For they are ashes under the soles of your feet, In the day that I am appointing, Said Jehovah of Hosts.