ashpot · ash heap

What it means

ashpot (אַשְׁפֹּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ash heap”.

Dunghill: the place outside a city where rubbish and ashes are thrown.

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. A rubbish dump outside the city; also a gate of Jerusalem.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Dung ×5
• ash heap ×1
• dunghill ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Psalms×1
• Lamentations×1

• 1 Samuel 2:8

  He raises the poor from the dust; from the ash heap he lifts the needy, to make them sit with nobles, and he makes them inherit a throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are YHWH’s, and on them he has set the world.

• Nehemiah 2:13

  And I went out by the Valley Gate at night, toward the Dragon Fountain and to the Dung Gate, and I was examining the walls of Jerusalem, which were full of breaches, and its gates, consumed by fire.

• Nehemiah 3:13

  The Valley Gate Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired; they built it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.

• Nehemiah 3:14

  And the Dung Gate Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired; he built it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 12:31

  Then I brought up the officials of Judah onto the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs and processions: one went to the right on top of the wall toward the Dung Gate.

• Psalms 113:7

  He raises the poor from the dust; from the dunghill he lifts up the needy,

• Lamentations 4:5

  Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up on crimson embrace dung heaps.