# עָשַׁת (ashat)

Israeli respelling: a-shat. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6245. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

probably to be sleek, i.e. glossy; hence (through the idea of polishing) to excogitate (as if forming in the mind)

King James renderings: shine, think.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ashat-h6245

## Occurrences

- [Jeremiah 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/28) — They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they…
- [Jonah 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/1/6) — So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon…