dashen · be fat; remove ashes

What it means

dashen (דָּשֵׁן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be fat; remove ashes”.

Be fat, grow fat; make fat, anoint (Psalm 23:5). Also clear the altar of the fatty ashes of the sacrifices (Exodus 27:3; Numbers 4:13).

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. To grow plump, or have plenty.
2. To pour oil on the head.
3. To receive a sacrifice with favor, count it good.
4. To clear from the altar the fatty remains of burnt offerings.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• will be filled to the full ×2
• accept ×1
• fills the bones to the full ×1
• grow fat ×1
• it is made fat ×1
• removing its ashes ×1
• they shall remove the ashes from ×1
• will be enriched ×1
• will be made fat ×1
• you anoint ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×2

• Exodus 27:3

  You shall make its pots for removing its ashes, and its shovels, its bowls, its forks, and its firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze.

• Numbers 4:13

  And they shall remove the ashes from the altar and spread over it a cloth of purple.

• Deuteronomy 31:20

  For I will bring them into the land that I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they will eat and be satisfied and grow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

• Psalms 20:3

  May he remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt offering. Selah.

• Psalms 23:5

  You lay out before me a table in front of my adversaries; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

• Proverbs 11:25

  A soul of blessing will be filled to the full, and one who waters will also himself be watered.

• Proverbs 13:4

  The soul of the sluggard craves, and there is nothing; but the soul of the diligent will be filled to the full.

• Proverbs 15:30

  The light of the eyes makes the heart glad; a good report fills the bones to the full.

• Proverbs 28:25

  The broad of soul stirs up strife, but whoever trusts in YHWH will be enriched.

• Isaiah 34:6

  The sword of YHWH is full of blood, it is made fat with fat, with the blood of lambs and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for YHWH has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

• Isaiah 34:7

  And wild oxen will come down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drenched with blood, and their dust with fat will be made fat.