H794 אֲשֵׁדָה (ʼăshêdâh) ash-ay-daw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

slope

Strong's Definition

a ravine

Derivation: feminine of H793 (אֶשֶׁד);

KJV Usage: springs.

TWOT Reference: 174b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) foundation, slope

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

אֲשֵׁדָה (a.she.dah) — slope. foundation, slope

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

אֲשֵׁדָה (H0793 · H0794) — אֶשֶׁד, אָשֵׁד

noun f

Landforms

slope = side of a mountain or hill

NUM 21:15 · DEU 3:17 · DEU 4:49 · JOS 12:3 · JOS 13:20

Names of Landforms

Collocation: הָאֲשֵׁדֹות

the Slopes = the eastern part of the hill country that slopes down towards the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley

JOS 10:40 · JOS 12:8

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[אֲשֵׁדָה] n.f. foundation, (mountain-)slope base

Bible Occurrences (6)

3:17 4:49

10:40 12:3 12:8 13:20

Deuteronomy 3:17

The Jordan [River] in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea... with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

Deuteronomy 4:49

including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua conquered the whole region— the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings— leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Joshua 12:3

as well as the Arabah east... of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea... eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

Joshua 12:8

the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev — [the lands of] the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

Joshua 13:20

Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—