# אֵפֶר (efer)

Israeli respelling: e-fer. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H665. 22 Old Testament occurrences.

ashes

King James renderings: ashes.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/efer-h665

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 18:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Numbers 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/9) — And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept fo…
- [Numbers 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/10) — And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of I…
- [2 Samuel 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/19) — And Tamar put ashes 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/1) — When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the c…
- [Esther 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Job 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/2/8) — And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- [Job 13:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/12) — Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
- [Job 30:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/19) — He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- [Job 42:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/6) — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
- [Psalms 102:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/9) — For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- [Psalms 147:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/147/16) — He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
- [Isaiah 44:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/20) — He feedeth on ashes: 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 61:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/61/3) — To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spi…
- [Jeremiah 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/26) — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamenta…
- [Lamentations 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/16) — He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- [Ezekiel 27:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Ezekiel 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 fir…
- [Daniel 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/3) — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
- [Jonah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sa…
- [Malachi 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/4/3) — And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of…