Strong's Hebrew · H665
אֵפֶר
ʼêpher · ay'-fer
Definitionashes
Derivationfrom an unused root meaning to bestrew;
KJV usageashes.
Occurrences22 in the KJV · 22 verses
אֵפֶר in Scripture
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Numbers 19:9
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Numbers 19:10
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute forever.
2 Samuel 13:19
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Esther 4:1
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Esther 4:3
And in every province, whithersoever the king' s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalms 147:16
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
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