Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
smoke
Usage: 1) smoke 1a) smoke 1b) in metaphor, simile 1c) smoke (fig.)
Ashan means “smoke” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6227 עָשָׁן (`ashan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ashan (aw-shawn') n-m. 1. smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger) [from H6225] It has 24 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include smoke. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`ashan (aw-shawn') n-m. 1. smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger) [from H6225] KJV: smoke(-ing). Root(s): H6225
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smoke
Usage: 1) smoke 1a) smoke 1b) in metaphor, simile 1c) smoke (fig.)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ashan, 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.
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24 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6227.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6227, grouped by book.
Ashan (Strong's H6227) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "smoke". `ashan (aw-shawn') n-m. 1. smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger) [from H6225]
This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's H6227 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6227 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as smoke. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.