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אַשְׁפָּה

ʼashpâh · H827 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Meanings

  1. quiver

    A long, narrow container for storing one's arrows

    Examples

    Job 39:23 “The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and javelin.

    Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

    Isaiah 22:6 Elam picked up the quiver, With the chariots, infantry, and horsemen; And Kir uncovered the shield.

  2. arrows, literally sons of the quiver

    Pointed missiles shot from a bow, slender, straight, and swift, made out of wood and/or iron, mainly used for hunting, in warfare, and occasionally for divination, and a symbol of aggression, affliction, and punishment

    Examples

    Lamentations 3:13 He made the arrows of His quiver Enter my inward parts.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
תְּלִי tᵉlîy · H8522 · quiver
Hebrew synonym for quiver, another term for the arrow container used in archery contexts (Gen 27:3).
Semantic domains 2 entries
Containers001003001001003
אַשְׁפָּה names the quiver as a container, the case holding arrows, as in the psalmist's image of a man whose quiver is full of children.
Weapons001003001001020
The quiver's function as part of archery equipment also places it among weapons, as in Job's description of the quiver rattling alongside the spear and javelin.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אַשְׁפָּהʼashpâh · H827אַשְׁפֹּת ʼashpôth · H830 · dunghill, rubbish heap, garbage heap · 7×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H827. ashpah אַשְׁמָּה noun feminine quiver for arrows (Assyrian išpatu DlK 29) ׳א…
H827. ashpah
אַשְׁמָּה noun feminine quiver for arrows (Assyrian išpatu DlK 29) ׳א literal as part of warlike equipment Job 39:23; Isa 22:6; figurative in simile of sons of one's youth as arrows (weapons which the father may wield) Psa 127:5 מֵהֶם אֶתאַֿשְׁמָּתוֺ מִלֵּא אֲשֶׁר הַגֶּבֶר אַשְׁרֵי the happiness of the man that hath filled his quiver with them ! of Yahweh's quiver, in metaphor of prophet as arrow of ׳י Isa 49:2 הִסְתִּירָ֑נִי בְּאַשְׁמָּתוֺ בָּרוּר לְחַץ וַיְשִׂימֵנִי and he made me into a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me; also of quiver in which ׳י has his arrows of chastisement, אַשְׁמָּתוֺ בְּנֵי, i.e. his arrows Lam 3:13 (|| חֵץ Lam 3:12).
אַשְׁמּה quiver, see under the word

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Containers5 occurrencesWeapons1 occurrence

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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