Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
ashes
Usage: σποδός, -oῦ, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for אֵפֶר ;] ashes: Heb.9:13; ἐν σάκκῳ καὶ σ. (Isa.58:5, Jhn.3:6, Dan LXX 9:3, al.), Mat.11:21, Luk.10:13.† (AS)
Spodos means “ashes” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4700 — metseleth (“cymbals”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4700 σποδός (spodos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. spodos (spod-os') n. 1. ashes [of uncertain derivation] It has 36 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include ashes. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
spodos (spod-os') n. 1. ashes [of uncertain derivation] KJV: ashes
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4700. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
ashes
Usage: σποδός, -oῦ, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for אֵפֶר ;] ashes: Heb.9:13; ἐν σάκκῳ καὶ σ. (Isa.58:5, Jhn.3:6, Dan LXX 9:3, al.), Mat.11:21, Luk.10:13.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render spodos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4700 (σποδός) appears 35 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Abraham answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.
And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by the altar toward the east to the place of the ashes.
And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification.
11 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and had ashes on their miters, and cried unto the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel graciously.
Then Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord, Judith cried with a loud voice, and said,
Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes,
First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4700.
And Abraham answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.
And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by the altar toward the east to the place of the ashes.
And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification.
And Tamar took ashes, and put them on her head; and she rent the variegated garment that was upon her: and she laid her hands on her head, and went crying continually.
But Mordecai having perceived what was done, rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself; and having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed.
And he came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace, wearing sackcloth and ashes.
And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying and lamentation and great mourning on the part of the Jews: they spread for themselves sackcloth and ashes.
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, And your body like a body of clay.
And thou hast counted me as clay; My portion is in dust and ashes.
Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: And I esteem myself dust and ashes.
For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, And mingled my drink with weeping;
He gives snow like wool: He scatters the mist like ashes.
Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, ye will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.
I have not chosen this fast, nor such a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though thou shouldest bend down thy neck as a ring, and spread under thee sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall ye call a fast acceptable.
that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.
O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.
And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, He has fed me with ashes.
And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.
Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee.
And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek him diligently by prayer and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth.
And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.
And ye shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, saith the Lord Almighty.
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
and had ashes on their miters, and cried unto the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel graciously.
Then Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord, Judith cried with a loud voice, and said,
Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes,
they rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,
They then seeing the attempt of Lysimachus, some of them caught stones, some clubs, others taking handfuls of dust, that was next at hand, cast them all together upon Lysimachus, and those that set upon them.
Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument, which on every side hanged down into the ashes.
for inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, And his life of less value than clay:
Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: For such a one setteth his own soul to sale; Because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.
He vieweth the power of the height of heaven; And all men are but earth and ashes.
From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, Unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4700, grouped by book.
Spodos (Strong's G4700) is a Greek word most simply glossed "ashes". spodos (spod-os') n. 1. ashes [of uncertain derivation]
This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's G4700 across 22 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4700 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as ashes. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 11 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4700, with linked reader references where each row is available.