Dashen means “anoint” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1878 — epanamimnesko (“put in mind”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1878 דָּשֵׁן (dashen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. dashen (daw-shane') v. 1. to be fat 2. transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat) It has 11 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include fat, ashes, and anointest. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
dashen (daw-shane') v. 1. to be fat 2. transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat) 3. specifically to anoint 4. (figuratively) to satisfy 5. denominatively (from H1880) to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices) [a primitive root] KJV: accept, anoint, take away the (receive) ashes (from), make (wax) fat. See also: H1880
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1878. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to prosper
Usage: 1) to be fat, grow fat, become fat, become prosperous, anoint 1a) (Qal) of prosperity (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to make fat, anoint 1b2) to find fat (of offering-acceptable) 1b3) to take away ashes (from altar) 1c) (Pual) to be made fat 1d) (Hothpael) to fatten oneself (of Jehovah's sword)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render dashen, 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 Old 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.
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11 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1878.
And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1878, grouped by book.
Dashen (Strong's H1878) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "anoint". dashen (daw-shane') v. 1. to be fat 2. transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat)
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's H1878 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1878 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fat, ashes, and anointest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.