עַשְׁתּוּת
thought
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6248 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.
Job 1 verse
About this entry
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עשתות — transliterated ʻashtûwth — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “thought.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Job (100% of all occurrences). It occurs only once, in Job 12:5. Sharing its root, it stands alongside עשת, עשות and עשת. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6248 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.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Thought 1×
- American Standard Version: Thought 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fate 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thought of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6248 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6248 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6248 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6248 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- thought, idea
Word origin
עַשְׁתּוּת n.f. thought;—cstr. Jb 12:5
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עשת (ʻâshath) (H6245) — to gleam.
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.
עֶשֶׁת
- , v. עֲשָׁשִׁית) wrought metal, bar; polished block. Kel. XI, 3, opp. to חֲרָרָה. Tosef. Ḥull. I, 18; Tosef. Men. IX, 18 מנורה … אלא מן הע׳ the candlestick in the Temple is not fit unless made out of a (gold) bar, opp. גְּרוּטָאוֹת; Men. 28ᵃ מן הע׳ ומן הזהב out of a bar and out of gold; Yalk. Ex. 369 מן הע׳ מן הזהב. Ib.; Men. l. c. חצוצרות מן הע׳ מן הכסף the trumpets were made out of silver bars; Tosef. l. c. 19 [read:] אלא מן הע׳ מן הכסף, contrad. to גוש raw ore. Cant. R. to V, 14 מה ע׳ שן זו עושין ממנה כמה יתדות וכ׳ (not זה) as out of a bar of shen (marble?) you make ever so many pegs, spears &c. Yalk. Cant. 991 (ref. to Cant. l. c.) אלו ספרי תורה … לע׳ שן וכ׳ (some ed. לעשות, corr. acc.) this refers to the scrolls of the Law which resemble a column of marble which is adorned with sapphires.—Pl. עַשְׁתּוֹת. Sifré Num. 160 השליך עליו ע׳ וגולמים if he threw at him metal balls or lumps, opp. to כלי; Yalk. ib. 787.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6248, 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
- עשות ʻâshôwth H6219 smooth
- עשת ʻăshith H6246 to think
- עשת ʻesheth H6247 plate
- עשתנה ʻeshtônâh H6250 thought
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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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