ashes
de.shen denotes ashes at altar-related disposal sites and, in other clauses, fatness or abundance associated with satisfaction.
The clearly recoverable uses show ashes associated with an altar, their removal, or a place where they are deposited; other verses use the noun in clauses about fatness, abundance, and satisfaction. Several supplied renderings do not make the noun’s individual contribution identifiable.
Senses in use
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Ashes at an altar or ash-deposit place · dominant
The absolute singular noun occurs in altar scenes: in 1 Kings 13:3 the APB renders that ashes upon the altar will be poured out, and in 1 Kings 13:5 it again describes ashes poured out from the altar. In Leviticus 1:16 it names the place beside the altar where material is cast, while Leviticus 4:12 distinguishes a clean place where ashes are poured out and an ash heap.
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Fatness or abundance for satisfaction · common
In Isaiah 55:2, the absolute singular noun stands in the invitation to eat what is good and for the soul to delight itself in “fatness.” Jeremiah 31:14 and Job 36:16 likewise place it in statements of satisfaction, rendered by the APB as “abundance” for priests and food “full of fatness” on a table; Judges 9:9 uses the construct form in the olive tree’s reference to its fatness.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the clause makes the contribution identifiable, the APB renders it as “ashes,” “ash heap,” “fatness,” or “abundance.” Its wording does not isolate the noun in every supplied verse.