Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #6245 - עָשַׁת ashath


Original Word:עָשַׁת
Transliteration: ashath
Phonetic Spelling:(aw-shath')
Definition:to be smooth or shiny
Part of Speech:Verb
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

shine, think

A primitive root; probably to be sleek, i.e. Glossy; hence (through the idea of polishing) to excogitate (as if forming in the mind) -- shine, think.


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Qal) to be smooth, be shiny, gleam
2) (Hithpael) to think
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1716, 1717

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [עָשַׁת] verbsmooth or shiny (?), si vera lectio (compare עֶשֶׁת); — only

QalPerfect3plural שָֽׁמְנוּעָֽשְׁתוּJeremiah 5:28 (figurative) they have grown fat, they are smooth (or shine, from fat); doubtful word, Thes conjecture עָֽשְׁרוּhave grown rich (compare ᵐ5ᵑ6ᵑ7), so Gie (but וַיַּעֲשִׁירוּ precedes, Jeremiah 5:27).

II. [עָשַׁת] verb Hithpa`elthink (Aramaism: Biblical Aramaic Participleעֲשִׁית, ᵑ7אִתְעַשַּׁת); —

Hithpa`elImperfect3masculine singular לָנוּ׳יִתְעַשֵּׁת אJonah 1:6 perhaps God will give a thought to us (compare חשׁבPsalm 40:18).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6245. עָשַׁת (ashath) — 2 Occurrences

Jeremiah 5:28
HEB: שָׁמְנ֣וּ עָשְׁת֗וּ גַּ֚ם עָֽבְר֣וּ
NAS: They are fat, they are sleek, They also
KJV: They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass
INT: are fat are sleek also excel

Jonah 1:6
HEB:אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אוּלַ֞י יִתְעַשֵּׁ֧ת הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים לָ֖נוּ
NAS: [your] god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.
KJV: if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish
INT: your god Perhaps will be concerned god we will not

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