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Strong's #1880: deshen (pronounced deh'-shen)

from 1878; the fat; abstractly fatness, i.e. (figuratively) abundance; specifically the (fatty) ashes of sacrifices:-- ashes, fatness.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁ

deshen

1) fat ashes, fatness

1a) fatness

1a1) of fertility

1a2) of blessing (figuratively)

1b) fat ashes (ashes of victims, mixed with the fat)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H1878



Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Leviticus 1:16: "on the east part, by the place of the ashes:"
Leviticus 4:12: "without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes and burn"
Leviticus 4:12: "and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt."
Leviticus 6:10: "his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with"
Leviticus 6:11: "garments, and carry forth the ashes without"
Judges 9:9: "said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man,"
1 Kings 13:3: "the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out."
1 Kings 13:5: "The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which"
Job 36:16: "there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness."
Psalms 36:8: "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures."
Psalms 63:5: "shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:"
Psalms 65:11: "with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness."
Isaiah 55:2: "ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness."
Jeremiah 31:14: "And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,"
Jeremiah 31:40: "And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook"









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