כור עשן
Chor-ashan
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3565 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel 1 verse
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At its core, כור עשן (Kôwr ʻÂshân) means “Chor-ashan.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Samuel (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at 1 Samuel 30:30. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3565 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Were in chorashan 1×
- American Standard Version: Were in bor-ashan 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bor-ashan 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ashan 1×, Was in bor 1×
King James Version Public Domain
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American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3565 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3565 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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Renders H3565 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Chor-ashan = "furnace of smoke"
- a town in Judah
Word origin
בּוֹר עָשָׁן (so rd. for ordinary כור ע׳ ) n.pr.loc. 1 S 30:30 ( smoking pit ), in S.W. of Judah
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כור (kûwr) (H3564) — furnace.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כּוֹר
- , v. כָּרָה) [a heap,] Khor, a measure of capacity, בֵּית כ׳ (or כ׳, sub. בית) an area requiring a Khor of seed. B. Mets. 105ᵇ כ׳ זרע a field requiring a Khor of seed; כ׳ תבואה a field yielding a Khor of grain. Ib. ד׳ סאין לכ׳ four S’ah of seed for a Beth Khor of land, v. נְפִילָה. B. Bath. VII, 1; 2 בית כ׳. Ib. 104ᵃ נותן … לכל כ׳ וכ׳ we allow a surplus or deficit of seven Kab and a half for each Beth Khor; a. fr.—Du. כּוֹרַיִים, כּוֹרַיִם. Ib.ᵇ—Ohol. VIII, 3; Kel. XV, 1 ארבעים סאה בלח שהן כ׳ ביבש forty S’ah in liquid measure which is equal to two Khor in dry measure.
כּוֹר ²
- Targ. Lev. XXVII, 16 (h. text חֹמֶר); a. fr.—B. Mets. 105ᵃ, v. אַלְלָא.—Pl. כּוֹרִין, כּוֹרֵי. [Targ. Y. Ex. VIII, 10 כורין Ar. heaps; ed. כַּרְוַון, v. כַּרְיָא.]—Targ. I Kings V, 25; a. fr.—B. Mets. l. c.—Y. ib. IV, 10ᶜ bot. Sabb. 35ᵃ, v. חַלְתָּא; a. fr.—[Ḥull. 62ᵇ בי כודי Ar., Var. כירי, between heaps (ed. כַּרְבֵּי).]—V. כּוֹרִיתָא.
כּוּר I
- מִלְּתָא דְּכ׳ Fort of Khur, a northern Palestinean border-town. Tosef. Shebi. IV, 11 Var. (ed. Zuck. מומתא דבור); Y. ib. VI, 36ᶜ מילתא דביר; Sifré Deut. 51 (במותה דביריין) כמותה דכריין; Yalk. Deut. 874 במתא דביריין; Targ. Y. I Num. XXXIV, 9 כִּירַיָּיא דבית סכל (v. כּוּרַיי). V. Hildesh. Beitr. p. 20, sq.
כּוּר II
- smelting pot, smelting furnace. Tosef. Kel. B. Kam. VI, 16. Kel. VIII, 9 כ׳ … של עושה זכיכית (Var. בור) the glassmaker’s pot. Sabb. VIII, 4 כ׳ של צורפי זהב the gold refiners’ pot. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXIV כאדם … מתוך הכ׳ וכ׳ like a man that takes gold out of the smelting pot without tongs &c. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XLVIII כ׳ של אש a burning furnace; a. e.
עָשָׁן
- v. עְשַׁן) [thick, cmp. עָב, אָבָק &c.,] smoke, soot. Ker. 6ᵃ מעלה ע׳ smoke-raiser (name of a plant). Yoma 21ᵇ עֲשַׁן המערכה the smoke rising from the pyre in the Temple; B. Bath. 147ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. עֲשַׁנִּים. Sabb. 23ᵃ כל הע׳ יפין וכ׳ all soots are good for making ink, but that produced by burning olive oil is the best.
עָשַׁן
- denom. of preced.) to smoke.
- to generate smoke; to fumigate; to burn incense. Sabb. 23ᵃ (ref. to the use of oil for ink) לגבל או לעַשֵּׁן do you mean for kneading it with soot, or for making soot by burning it? Pesik. R. s. 12 והיו מְעַשְּׁנוֹת לפני עכו"ם they burnt incense before idols; Tanḥ. Tol’doth 8 מעשנות ומקטרות וכ׳ raised smoke and burnt perfumes &c. Yeb. 115ᵃ עִישֵּׁינוּ עלינו בית וכ׳ (Ar. עִישְּׁנוּ) they (robbers) filled our house with smoke, filled a cave in which we dwelt with smoke &c. Y. Ber. VI, 12ᵇ bot. במְעַשֵּׁין לפני וכ׳ (not במעשיו) when he burns spices in front of his shop; a. e.—Esp. to fumigate plants. Shebi. II, 2 מְעַשְּׁנִין עד וכ׳ you may fumigate until New Year (of the Sabbatical year). Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵃ top המְעַשֵּׁן he who fumigates plants (on the Sabbath); a. fr.—Part. pass. מְעוּשָּׁן; f. מְעוּשֶּנֶת; pl. מְעוּשָּׁנִים, מְעוּשָּׁנִין; מְעוּשָּׁנוֹת. Men. VIII, 6 אין מביאין … מע׳ you must not use for libations sweet wine or smoked wine (of fumigated grapes). Y. Bicc. I, 63ᵈ bot. ענבים מאובקות ומע׳ וכ׳ (not מאונ׳) powdered (v. אָבַק) or smoked grapes should not be offered as first-fruits. Ḥull. III, 5 המע׳ an animal that has inhaled smoke; a. e.
- to be affected by smoke, taste of smoke. Zeb. 64ᵃ שמא יִתְעַשֵּׁנוּ lest the wine for libations may catch smoke (when carried past the altar pyre).
עֲשַׁן
- (cmp. אשן) to be substantial, strong (corresp. to h. עזז, v. עַז). Targ. Ps. LII, 9 עֲשַׁן Ms. (ed. עֲשִׁין). Ib. LXXXIX, 14 (ed. Wil. תַּעְשֵׁן Af.); a. e.
- to strengthen, make substantial. Targ. Prov. VIII, 28 (ed. Wil. אַעְשִׂין, corr. acc.); a. e.
- 1. to become strong. Targ. Y. Num. XXV, 8.
- 2. to exhibit one’s strength. Targ. Ps. LXVIII, 29 (h. text עוזה).
- 3. to boast of one’s strength, be impudent. Ib. IX, 20.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H3565 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/בוֹר | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 30:30 | 1 |
| עָשָׁ֖ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 30:30 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3565, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- גר gir H1615 chalk
- כיור kîyôwr H3595 pot
- כיר kîyr H3600 stove
- כר kôr H3734 kor
- מכורה mᵉkûwrâh H4351 origin
- מכרה mᵉkêrâh H4380 weapons
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Chor-ashan). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Smoking furnace, one of the places where "David himself and his men were wont to haunt" (1 Sam. 30:30, 31). It is probably identical with Ashan (Josh. 15:42; 19:7), a Simeonite city in the Negeb, i.e., the south, belonging to Judah. The word ought, according to another reading, to be "Bor-ashan."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(1 Samuel 30:30) It may perhaps, be identified with Ashan of Simeon.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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