עָשַׁת
ʻâshath · H6245 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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Action by which a deity turns his attention to the condition of humans (to remember, to think of (someone))
ExamplesJonah 1:6 So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”
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to become fat
Process by which humans become corpulent; associated with wealth and prosperity
ExamplesJeremiah 5:28 ‘They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, so that they may be successful; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
- Not stated: they 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ נוּus 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Think002004002013
- עָשַׁת means to give thought or consider, as when the ship's captain urges Jonah to call on his god so that he might be concerned for their fate in Jonah 1:6.
- Fat002001001028
- The word also describes becoming smooth or sleek, a well-fed condition, as of the wicked who have grown fat and sleek in Jeremiah 5:28.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6245. ashath I. [עָשַׁת] verb smooth or shiny (?), si vera lectio (compare עֶשֶׁת); —…
I. [עָשַׁת] verb smooth or shiny (?), si vera lectio (compare עֶשֶׁת); — only
Qal Perfect3plural עָֽשְׁתוּ שָֽׁמְנוּ Jer 5:28 (figurative) they have grown fat, they are smooth (or shine, from fat); doubtful word, Thes conjecture עָֽשְׁרוּ have grown rich (compare ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ᵐ5), so Gie (but וַיַּעֲשִׁירוּ precedes, Jer 5:27).
II. [עָשַׁת] verb Hithpa`el think (Aramaism: Biblical Aramaic Participleאִתְעַשַּׁת ᵑ7 עֲשִׁית,); —
Hithpa`el Imperfect3masculine singular א ׳יִתְעַשֵּׁת לָנוּ Jon 1:6 perhaps God will give a thought to us (compare חשׁב Psalm 40:18).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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