ashan · smoke

What it means

ashan (עָשָׁן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “smoke”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What rises from what burns; so it is an image of anger or of what fades away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• smoke ×24
• smoking ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Joshua×2
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 15:17

  When the sun had gone down and it was dark, look, a smoking oven and a torch of fire that passed between these pieces.

• Exodus 19:18

  Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because YHWH had come down upon it in fire; and its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.

• Joshua 8:20

  The men of Ai turned back and looked, and look, the smoke of the city was going up to the heavens, and they had no strength to flee this way or that way; and the people who were fleeing to the wilderness turned back against the pursuer.

• Joshua 8:21

  When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city was going up, they turned back and struck the men of Ai.

• Judges 20:38

  Now the agreed signal between the men of Israel and the ambush was that they should send up from the city a great cloud of smoke.

• Judges 20:40

  But the signal began to go up from the city, a column of smoke; and Benjamin turned behind him, and look, the whole city was going up toward the heavens.

• 2 Samuel 22:9

  Smoke went up from his nostrils, and fire from his mouth devoured; coals blazed from him.

• Job 41:20

  From its nostrils comes out smoke, as from a pot blown on and rushes.

• Psalms 18:8

  Smoke went up in his nostrils, and fire from his mouth devoured; coals blazed from him.

• Psalms 37:20

  For the wicked will perish, and the enemies of YHWH, like what is precious in the meadows, are spent; in smoke they are spent.

• Psalms 68:2

  As smoke is blown away, you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before Elohim.

• Psalms 102:3

  For my days have been consumed in smoke, and my bones like a hearth are burned.

• Proverbs 10:26

  Like vinegar to the teeth, and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

• Song of Songs 3:6

  Who is this coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the powders of the merchant?

• Isaiah 4:5

  And YHWH will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her convocations a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

• Isaiah 6:4

  And the pivots of the thresholds shook at the voice of the one who called, and the house was filling with smoke.

• Isaiah 9:18

  For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours briers and thorns, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll up in a column of smoke.

• Isaiah 14:31

  Wail, gate! Cry out, city! Melt away, Philistia, all of you! For from the north smoke is coming, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

• Isaiah 34:10

  Night and day it will not be quenched; forever its smoke will rise; from generation to generation it will lie waste; for ever and ever no one will pass through it.

• Isaiah 51:6

  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens like smoke will vanish, and the earth like a garment will wear out, and its inhabitants likewise will die; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be shattered.

• Isaiah 65:5

  who say, ‘Stay by yourself, do not come near me, for I am holy to you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that is swept by the storm from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window.

• Joel 2:30

  And I will give wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke.

• Nahum 2:13

  “Look, I am against you, declares YHWH Tsevaot, and I will burn in smoke her chariots, and the sword will devour your young lions, and I will cut off from the earth your prey, and no longer will be heard the voice of your messengers.”

And 1 more times.