Occurrences
ʼêpher occurs 22 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Numbers (2), 2 Samuel (1), Esther (2), Job (4), Psalms (2), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (2), Daniel (1), Jonah (1), Malachi (1)
- Genesis 18:27 — And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes (וָאֵֽפֶר):
- Numbers 19:9 — And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes (אֵ֣פֶר) of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
- Numbers 19:10 — And he that gathereth the ashes (אֵ֤פֶר) of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
- 2 Samuel 13:19 — And Tamar put ashes (אֵ֙פֶר֙) on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
- Esther 4:1 — When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes (וָאֵ֑פֶר), and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Esther 4:3 — And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes (וָאֵ֔פֶר).
- Job 2:8 — And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes (הָאֵֽפֶר).
- Job 13:12 — Your remembrances are like unto ashes (אֵ֑פֶר), your bodies to bodies of clay.
- Job 30:19 — He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes (וָאֵֽפֶר).
- Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes (וָאֵֽפֶר).
- Psalms 102:9 — For I have eaten ashes (אֵ֭פֶר) like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- Psalms 147:16 — He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes (כָּאֵ֥פֶר).
- Isaiah 44:20 — He feedeth on ashes (אֵ֔פֶר): a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Isaiah 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes (וָאֵ֙פֶר֙) under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
- Isaiah 61:3 — To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes (אֵ֗פֶר), the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
- Jeremiah 6:26 — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes (בָאֵ֔פֶר): make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
- Lamentations 3:16 — He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes (בָּאֵֽפֶר).
- Ezekiel 27:30 — And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes (בָּאֵ֖פֶר):
- Ezekiel 28:18 — Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes (לְאֵ֙פֶר֙) upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
- Daniel 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes (וָאֵֽפֶר):
- Jonah 3:6 — For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes (הָאֵֽפֶר).
- Malachi 4:3 — And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes (אֵ֔פֶר) under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.