שֶׁפֶךְ
shefech · ash heap
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8211 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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shefech (שֶׁפֶךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ash heap”.
A place where ashes are emptied.
How to say it
she·fech
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 spot outside the camp where the altar's remains were dumped.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 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.
And 1 more times.