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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6227

עָשָׁן

ashanaw-shawn'

smoke

25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻâshân

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6227is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6227

smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger)

The King James renders it: smoke(-ing).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

ashan is rendered "smoke". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

Genesis 15:17עָשָׁן֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-five uses are in Isaiah.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • smoke12
  • in the smoke2
  • smoke its2
  • smoke of2
  • and like smoke1
  • and like the smoke1
  • and smoke1
  • in smoke1
  • like smoke of1
  • like the smoke1
  • the smoke1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

עָשָׂהasahto make: doUses2,628
עָשָׂרasartenUses338

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 25, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • עָשָׁ֑ן3
  • עָשָֽׁן׃3
  • עָשָׁן֙2
  • עָשָׁ֣ן2
  • בְעָשָׁ֣ן1
  • בֶעָשָׁ֣ן1
  • בֶֽעָשָׁן֙1
  • הֶעָשָׁ֖ן1
  • וְכֶעָשָׁ֥ן1
  • וּכְעָשָׁ֖ן1
  • וְעָשָׁ֔ן1
  • כְּעֶ֣שֶׁן1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular12HNcmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HRd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa

Genesis

one use
  • When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

    Genesis 15:17

    • עָשָׁן֙ʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke

Exodus

two uses
  • Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

    Exodus 19:18

    • עֲשָׁנוֹ֙ashanonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: smoke its
    • כְּעֶ֣שֶׁןkeeshenpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like smoke of

Joshua

two uses
  • When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

    Joshua 8:20

    • עֲשַׁ֤ןʾashannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: smoke of
  • When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

    Joshua 8:21

    • עֲשַׁ֣ןʾashannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: smoke of

Judges

two uses
  • The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

    Judges 20:38

    • הֶעָשָׁ֖ןheashanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the smoke
  • But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

    Judges 20:40

    • עָשָׁ֑ןʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke

2 Samuel

one use
  • Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

    2 Samuel 22:9

    • עָשָׁן֙ʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke

Job

one use
  • Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

    Job 41:20

    • עָשָׁ֑ןʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke

Psalms

four uses
  • Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

    Psalms 18:8

    • עָשָׁ֨ן׀ʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke
  • But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

    Psalms 37:20

    • בֶעָשָׁ֣ןveashanpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the smoke
  • As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

    Psalms 68:2

    • עָשָׁ֗ןʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke
  • For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

    Psalms 102:3

    • בְעָשָׁ֣ןveashanpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in smoke

Proverbs

one use
  • Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.

    Proverbs 10:26

    • וְכֶעָשָׁ֥ןvekheashanconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the smoke

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

    Song of Solomon 3:6

    • עָשָׁ֑ןʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke

Isaiah

seven uses
  • Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

    Isaiah 4:5

    • וְעָשָׁ֔ןveashanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and smoke
  • At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.

    Isaiah 6:4

    • עָשָֽׁן׃ʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke
  • For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

    Isaiah 9:18

    • עָשָֽׁן׃ʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke
  • Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

    Isaiah 14:31

    • עָשָׁ֣ןʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke
  • It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

    Isaiah 34:10

    • עֲשָׁנָ֑הּʾashanahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: smoke its
  • Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

    Isaiah 51:6

    • כֶּעָשָׁ֤ןkeashanpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the smoke
  • They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

    Isaiah 65:5

    • עָשָׁ֣ןʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke

Hosea

one use
  • Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

    Hosea 13:3

    • וּכְעָשָׁ֖ןukheashanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like smoke

Joel

one use
  • I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

    Joel 2:30

    • עָשָֽׁן׃ʾashannoun · masculine singulartagged: smoke

Nahum

one use
  • “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

    Nahum 2:13

    • בֶֽעָשָׁן֙veashanpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the smoke

The letters

Gematria 420· 1,070 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →