Dict: easton - Ashes

easton:

Ashes @ The ashes of a red heifer burned entire kjv@Numbers:19:5) when sprinkled on the unclean made them ceremonially clean kjv@Hebrews:9:13). To cover the head with ashes was a token of self-abhorrence and humiliation ( kjv@2Samuel:13:19; kjv@Esther:4:3; kjv@Jeremiah:6:26, etc.). To feed on ashes kjv@Isaiah:44:20), means to seek that which will prove to be vain and unsatisfactory, and hence it denotes the unsatisfactory nature of idol-worship. (Comp. kjv@Hosea:12:1).