Strong's Hebrew: 830. אַשְׁפּוֹת (ashpoth) -- an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill

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Lexicon

ashpoth: an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill

Original Word: אַשְׁפּוֹת
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: ashpoth
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-pohth')
Short Definition: refuse

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from the same as shaphath
Definition
an ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill
NASB Translation
ash (2), ash pits (1), refuse (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

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; שַׁעַר הָאַשְׁמֹּת Nehemiah 2:13; Nehemiah 3:14; Nehemiah 12:31 = הָֽשְׁפוֺת ׳שׁ Nehemiah 3:13 (Ges^{§ 35d}).

Strong's

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