deshen · fat ashes, fatness

What it means

deshen (דֶּשֶׁן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fat ashes, fatness”.

The greasy ashes left on the altar. Also fatness, abundance.

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. The richest, most plentiful part of food, full of fat.
2. The dust left on the altar after burning.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ashes ×6
• fatness ×5
• ash heap ×2
• richness ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×5
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2

• Leviticus 1:16

  He shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it beside the altar on the east side, into the place of the ashes.

• Leviticus 4:12

  all the bull, he shall bring out to outside the camp, to a clean place, to the ash heap, and burn it on wood with fire; on the ash heap it shall be burned.

• Leviticus 6:10

  The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on linen undergarments on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes left when the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.

• Leviticus 6:11

  Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and bring out the ashes to outside the camp, to a clean place.

• Judges 9:9

  But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I give up my fatness, by which through me Elohim and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’

• 1 Kings 13:3

  And he gave a wonder that day, saying, “This is the wonder that YHWH has spoken: look, the altar will be torn apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

• 1 Kings 13:5

  The altar was torn apart, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the wonder that the man of Elohim had given by the word of YHWH.

• Job 36:16

  And he also incites you to come out from the mouth of distress into a broad place, with no constraint beneath it, and what is set on your table is full of fatness.

• Psalms 36:8

  They drink their fill of the fatness of your house, and from the stream of your delights you give them drink.

• Psalms 63:5

  As with fat and richness my soul will be satisfied, and with lips of joyful shouts my mouth will praise you,

• Psalms 65:11

  You have crowned the year of your goodness, and your tracks drip richness.

• Isaiah 55:2

  Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and the fruit of your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness.

• Jeremiah 31:14

  And I will drench the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, declares YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 31:40

  And the whole valley of the corpses and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holiness to YHWH; it will not be uprooted or demolished anymore, forever.”

And 1 more times.