King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H830
Transliteration: ashpoth
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-pohth')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill
Meaning: an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill
Word Summary
ashpoth: an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill
Original Word: אַשְׁפֹּתTransliteration: ashpoth
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-pohth')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill
Meaning: an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill
Strong's Concordance
dung hill Or uashpowth {ash-pohth'}; or (contraction) shphoth {shef-ohth'}; plural of a noun of the same form as 'ashpah, from shaphah (in the sense of scraping); a heap of rubbish or filth -- dung (hill).
see HEBREW 'ashpah
see HEBREW shaphah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
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 1 Samuel 2:8 = Psalm 113:7 (both "" עָפָר; compare Job 2:8 Wetzst in De); so plural אַשׁפַתּוֺת Lamentations 4:5; הָאַשְׁמֹּת שַׁעַר Nehemiah 2:13; 3:14; 12:31 = ׳שׁ הָֽשְׁפוֺת 3:13 (Ges§ 35d).