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Strong's #6227 - עָשָׁן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- smoke
- smoke
- in metaphor, simile
- smoke (figuratively)
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2583) nso (אהסהנ AhShN) AC: ? CO: Smoke AB: ?
V) nso (אהסהנ AhShN) - Smoke: KJV (6): (vf: Paal) smoke, angry - Strongs: H6225 (עָשַׁן)
Nm) nso (אהסהנ AhShN) - Smoke: KJV (27): smoke, smoking - Strongs: H6226 (עָשֵׁן), H6227 (עָשָׁן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1. a. of burning city Joshua 8:20; Joshua 8:21; Judges 20:88; Judges 20:40, compare Nahum 2:14; heralding a foe Isaiah 14:31.
b. in figurative of destruction of Israel Isaiah 9:17, Edom Isaiah 34:10.
c. simile of dust-cloud Song of Solomon 3:6; of transitoriness Hosea 13:3; Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 37:20 (reading ׳כֶּע, as ᵐ5ᵑ6 ᵑ9), Psalm 68:3; Psalm 102:4; simile of the unpleasant, Proverbs 10:26.
d. breath of crocodile Job 41:12.
2. a. attending theoph., ׳תַּנּוּר ע Genesis 15:17; of mountain Exodus 19:18, compare simile הַכִּבְשָׁן׳כְּע Exodus 19:18; Isaiah 6:4, also Isaiah 4:5; Joel 3:3.
b. of God's anger, בְּאַמּוֺ׳ע 2 Samuel 22:9 = Psalm 18:9; so probably also Isaiah 65:5.
עָשָׁן m. constr. [עֲשַׁן also] עֶשֶׁן (as if from עָשֵׁן).
(1) smoke, Genesis 15:17; Job 41:12. Poet. used of the anger of God, Psalms 18:9, עָלָה עָשָׁן בְּאַפּוֹ “smoke went up in his nostrils,” an image taken from horses or lions, which, when excited with anger, breathe strongly through their nostrils, Isaiah 65:5. Used of a cloud of dust, Isaiah 14:31 compare fumantes pulvere campos, Virg. Æn. xi. 909.
(2) [Ashan], pr.n. of a town; see כּוֹר עָשָׁן.