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Noun spodos (ashes) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 11: 21 | "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes (spodos). |
Luke
| 10: 13 | "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes (spodos). |
Hebrews
| 9: 13 | For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes (spodos) of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, |
Genesis (LXX)
| 18: 27 | And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes (spodos). |
Leviticus (LXX)
| 1: 16 | And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by the altar toward the east to the place of the ashes (spodos). |
Numbers (LXX)
| 19: 9 | And a clean man shall gather up the ashes (spodos) of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification. |
2 Samuel (LXX: 2 Kings)
| 13: 19 | And Themar took ashes (spodos), and put them on her head; and she rent the variegated garment that was upon her: and she laid her hands on her head, and went crying continually. |
Isaiah (LXX)
| 44: 20 | Know thou that their heart is ashes (spodos), and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, ye will not say, There is a lie in my right hand. |
| 58: 5 | I have not chosen this fast, nor such a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though thou shouldest bend down thy neck as a ring, and spread under thee sackcloth and ashes (spodos), neither thus shall ye call a fast acceptable. |
| 61: 3 | that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes (spodos), the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory. |
Jeremiah (LXX)
| 6: 26 | O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes (spodos); make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you. |
Ezekiel (LXX)
| 27: 30 | And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes (spodos) under them. |
| 28: 18 | Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee tobe ashes (spodos) upon thy land before all that see thee. |
Jonas (LXX)
| 3: 6 | 6 And the word reached the king of Nineve, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes (spodos). |
Malachi (LXX)
| 3: 21 | And ye shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes (spodos) underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, saith the Lord Almighty. |
Daniel (LXX: Old Greek version)
| 9: 3 | And I gave my face to the Lord God, to find prayer and compassion with fasting and with ashes (spodos) and sackcloth. |
| 14: 14 | Now Daniel commanded those with him, after everyone departed from the temple, to strew the whole shrine with ashes (spodos), though no one else except him knew. And then, as he sealed the shrine, he commanded that it be sealed with the king's signet and with the signets of certain illustrious priests. And so it happened. |
Lamentations (LXX)
| 3: 16 | And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes (spodos). |
Psalms (LXX)
| 102 (101): 10 | For I have eaten ashes (spodos) as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping; |
| 147: 5 | He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes (spodos). |
Job (LXX)
| 13: 12 | And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes (spodos), and your body like a body of clay. |
| 30: 19 | And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion is in dust and ashes (spodos). |
| 42: 6 | Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes (spodos). |
Esther (LXX)
| 4: 1 | But Mardochaeus having perceived what was done, rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, and sprinkled ashes (spodos) upon himself; and having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed. |
| 4: 2 | And he came to the king's gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace, wearing sackcloth and ashes (spodos). |
| 4: 3 | And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying and lamentation and great mourning on the part of the Jews: they spread for themselves sackcloth and ashes (spodos). |
| 4: 17k | And queen Esther betook herself for refuge to the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death. And having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning; and instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes (spodos) and dung, and she greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the torn curls of her hair. And she besought the Lord God of Israel, and said, |
Judith (LXX)
| 4: 15 | and had ashes (spodos) on their mitres, and cried unto the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel graciously. |
| 9: 1 | Then Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes (spodos) upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord, Judith cried with a loud voice, and said, |
Sirach (LXX)
| 10: 9 | Why is earth and ashes (spodos) proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels. |
| 17: 32 | He vieweth the power of the height of heaven; and all men are but earth and ashes (spodos). |
| 40: 3 | From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes (spodos); |
Wisdom (LXX)
| 15: 10 | His heart is ashes (spodos), his hope is more vile than earth, and his life of less value than clay: |
1 Maccabees (LXX)
| 3: 47 | Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast ashes (spodos) upon their heads, and rent their clothes, |
| 4: 39 | they rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes (spodos) upon their heads, |
2 Maccabees (LXX)
| 4: 41 | They then seeing the attempt of Lysimachus, some of them caught stones, some clubs, others taking handfuls of ashes (spodos), that was next at hand, cast them all together upon Lysimachus, and those that set upon them. |
| 13: 5 | Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes (spodos), and it had a round instrument, which on every side hanged down into the ashes (spodos). |
| 13: 8 | for inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes (spodos) were holy, he received his death in ashes (spodos). |
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