Hebrew noun (masculine) · H830
אַשְׁפֹּת
ashpothash-pohth'
Dung (Gate)
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼashpôth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H830is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H830
a heap of rubbish or filth
The King James renders it: dung (hill).
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
ashpoth is rendered "Dung (Gate)". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
1 Samuel 2:8מֵֽאַשְׁפֹּת֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in Nehemiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the dung4
- from ash heap2
- ash heaps1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַשְׁמָה | ashmah | guiltiness | Uses19 |
| אַשְׁמֻרָה | ashmurah | watch | Uses7 |
| אַשְׁפָּה | ashpah | quiver | Uses6 |
| אַשְׁדּוֹדִי | Ashdodi | Ashdod | Uses5 |
| אַשְׁמָן | ashman | strong | Uses1 |
| אַשְׁבֵּלִי | Ashbeli | Ashbelite | Uses1 |
| אַשְׂרִאֵלִי | Asrieli | Asrielite | Uses1 |
| אַשְׁדּוֹדִית | Ashdodith | Ashdod | Uses1 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- אַשְׁפַּתּֽוֹת׃ ס1
- הָאַשְׁפּ֗וֹת1
- הָאַשְׁפֹּ֑ת1
- הָאַשְׁפֹּֽת׃1
- הָשֲׁפֽוֹת׃1
- מֵֽ֝אַשְׁפֹּ֗ת1
- מֵֽאַשְׁפֹּת֙1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular4HTd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
1 Samuel
one use
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- מֵֽאַשְׁפֹּת֙meashpotpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from ash heap
Nehemiah
four uses
So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
- הָאַשְׁפֹּ֑תhaashpotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dung
The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it, installed its doors, bolts, and bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
- הָשֲׁפֽוֹת׃hashafotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dung
The Dung Gate was repaired by Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem. He rebuilt it and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.
- הָאַשְׁפּ֗וֹתhaashpotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dung
Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.
- הָאַשְׁפֹּֽת׃haashpotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dung
Psalms
one use
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- מֵֽ֝אַשְׁפֹּ֗תmeashpotpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from ash heap
Lamentations
one use
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- אַשְׁפַּתּֽוֹת׃ סʾashpatotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: ash heaps
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.