אֲשֵׁדָה
asheda · slope
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H794 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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asheda (אֲשֵׁדָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slope”.
The side of a mountain where the water runs down.
How to say it
a·she·da
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
- The sloping sides of a mountain.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 3:17
and the Arabah, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
- Deuteronomy 4:49
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
- Joshua 10:40
So Joshua struck all the land: the hill country, the Negev, the Shephelah, and the slopes, and all their kings; he left no survivor, and he devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, had commanded.
- Joshua 12:3
and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth to the east, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, below the slopes of Pisgah;
- Joshua 12:8
in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev: the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Joshua 13:20
and Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;