אַשְׁפָּה
quiver
‘quiver’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H827 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 22:6 אַשְׁפָּ֔ה n c fs Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
- Isaiah 49:2 בְּ/אַשְׁפָּת֖/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אשפה (ʼashpâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “quiver.” It first appears in Job 39:23. Spanning 6 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah dominates its distribution — 2 of 6 verses. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H827 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
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 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Quiver 5×
- American Standard Version: Quiver 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Quiver 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Quiver 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H827 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H827 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H827 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H827 across 6 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.
- quiver (for arrows)
- of home, of God's instruments (figuratively)
Word origin
quiver, vid. s.v.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אשף (ʼashshâph) (H825) — necromancer.
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.
אַשְׁפָּה
- , to heap up, cmp. Is. XIII, 2, Ps. XXII, 16) pile, dunghill. Y. Keth. I, 25ᵈ bot. אי׳. Ḥull. 12ᵃ; a. fr.—שער הא׳ (b. h. ש׳ האשפת, ש׳ השפת) Hill Gate, name of a Jerusalem gate. Sabb. 15ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. אַשְׁפּוֹת. Ex. R. s. 10 ארבע א׳ four heaps (of dead frogs, = b. h. חמרים); a. fr.—Euphem. מערה לא׳ using means to prevent conception (applied to both man a. woman). Keth. VII, 5. (Ib. 72ᵃ, acc. to Boraitha, literally, ‘to draw water and pour it out on the dunghill’—as a foolish act). Gen. R. s. 85, ref. to Gen. XXXVIII, 7.—[Homiletic interpretation of בני אשפתו, Lam. III, 13, ‘the sons of those laid low’ (conquered); Lam. R. a. l., Esth. R. to I, 1ᵇ, v. אוֹפִיכָא, אוּכַּיְיפָא.] e.g. Isaiah 13:2
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 6 distinct written forms H827 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַשְׁפָּ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 39:23 | 1 |
| אַשְׁפָּ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 22:6 | 1 |
| אַשְׁפָּת֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 5:16 | 1 |
| אַשְׁפָּת֗/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 127:5 | 1 |
| אַשְׁפָּתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Lamentations 3:13 | 1 |
| בְּ/אַשְׁפָּת֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 49:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H827, 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
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
