Word

אַשְׁפֹּת

ʼashpôth · H830 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

dunghill, rubbish heap, garbage heap

Heap of dung, ashes, and other garbage, probably located outside of a population center; associated with poverty and low status

Examples
1 Samuel 2:8 “He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the garbage heap To seat them with nobles, And He gives them a seat of honor as an inheritance; For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, And He set the world on them.
Psalm 113:7 He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the garbage heap,
Lamentations 4:5 Those who used to eat delicacies Are made to tremble in the streets; Those who were raised in crimson clothing Embrace garbage heaps.
Dung Gate, Garbage Gate

One of the city gates of Jerusalem

Examples
Nehemiah 2:13 So I went out at night by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon’s Spring and on to the Dung Gate, and I was inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which had been consumed by fire.
Nehemiah 3:13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They built it and installed its doors with its bolts and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall to the Dung Gate.
Nehemiah 3:14 And Malchijah the son of Rechab, the official of the district of Beth-haccherem repaired the Dung Gate. He built it and installed its doors with its bolts and its bars.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חָבַקto hold 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 1 groups

שַׁעַרgate 4

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

Towns001003002011: אַשְׁפֹּת names a dung heap or refuse pile, most often as part of the place-name 'Dung Gate' in Jerusalem's walls that Nehemiah inspected and repaired.
Names of Constructions003001003: The word functions specifically as part of the Dung Gate's own name, one of Jerusalem's identified gates.

Word family 2 words

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

אַשְׁפָּה ʼashpâh · H827 · quiver, sons of the quiver > arrows · 6×אַשְׁפֹּתʼashpôth · H830

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H830. ashpoth אַשְׁמֹּת noun [masculine] ash-heap(?), refuse-heap, dung-hill (probably…

H830. ashpoth
אַשְׁמֹּת noun [masculine] ash-heap(?), refuse-heap, dung-hill (probably originally fire-place stones, compare Arabic below √); — ׳א absolute as beggars' resting-place 1Sa 2:8 = Psa 113:7 (both || עָפָר; compare Job 2:8 Wetzst in De); so plural אַשׁפַתּוֺת Lam 4:5; הָאַשְׁמֹּת שַׁעַר Neh 2:13; Neh 3:14; Neh 12:31 = ׳שׁ הָֽשְׁפוֺת Neh 3:13 (Ges§ 35d).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Towns3 occurrences Names of Constructions4 occurrences

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