Hebrew verb · H6244
עָשֵׁשׁ
asheshaw-shaysh'
to waste
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâshêsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6244is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6244
probably to shrink, i.e. fail
The King James renders it: be consumed.
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
ashesh is rendered "to waste". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
Psalms 6:7עָֽשְׁשָׁ֣ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it has wasted away2
- they have wasted away1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָשֵׁן | ashen | smoking | Uses2 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- עָֽשְׁשָׁ֣ה1
- עָשְׁשָׁ֖ה1
- עָשֵֽׁשׁוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Psalms
three uses
My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
- עָֽשְׁשָׁ֣הʾasheshahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has wasted away
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
- עָשְׁשָׁ֖הʾasheshahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has wasted away
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
- עָשֵֽׁשׁוּ׃ʾasheshuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have wasted away
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 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.