STRONGS NUMBER H827


Word Summary
ashpah: a quiver (for arrows)
Original Word: אַשְׁפָּה
Transliteration: ashpah
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-paw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a quiver (for arrows)
Meaning: a quiver (for arrows)
Strong's Concordance
quiver

Perhaps (feminine) from the same as 'ashshaph (in the sense of covering); a quiver or arrow-case -- quiver.

see HEBREW 'ashshaph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H827. ashpah

אַשְׁמָּהnoun feminine quiver for arrows (Assyrian išpatu DlK 29) ׳א‎ literal as part of warlike equipment Job 39:23; Isaiah 22:6; figurative in simile of sons of one's youth as arrows (weapons which the father may wield) Psalm 127:5 מֵהֶם אֶתאַֿשְׁמָּתוֺ מִלֵּא אֲשֶׁר הַגֶּבֶר אַשְׁרֵיthe happiness of the man that hath filled his quiver with them ! of Yahweh's quiver, in metaphor of prophet as arrow of ׳יIsaiah 49:2 הִסְתִּירָ֑נִי בְּאַשְׁמָּתוֺ בָּרוּר לְחַץ וַיְשִׂימֵנִיand he made me into a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me; also of quiver in which ׳י‎ has his arrows of chastisement, אַשְׁמָּתוֺ בְּנֵי‎, i.e. his arrows Lamentations 3:13 ("" חֵץ3:12).

אַשְׁמּהquiver, see under the word