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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"/><title>Topical Bible: Dump</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/topical/d/dump.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newtopical.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/topical/vmenus/leviticus/14-41.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmcde/d/dump.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/topical/">Topical</a> > Dump</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/topical/d/dumbfounded.htm" title="Dumbfounded">◄</a> Dump <a href="/topical/d/dumped.htm" title="Dumped">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Jump to: <a href="#web" title="Webster's Dictionary">Webster's</a> • <a href="#cnc" title="Multiversion Concordance">Concordance</a> • <a href="#thes" title="Bible Thesaurus">Thesaurus</a> • <a href="#heb" title="Strong's Hebrew Concordance">Hebrew</a> • <a href="#lib" title="Library">Library</a> • <a href="#sub" title="Subtopics">Subtopics</a> • <a href="#rel" title="Related Terms">Terms</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><a name="te" id="te"></a><div class="vheading2">Topical Encyclopedia</div>In biblical times, the concept of a "dump" as understood in modern terms did not exist. However, the Bible does reference places and practices that align with the idea of waste disposal and refuse management. These references provide insight into the cultural and religious practices of ancient Israel and surrounding regions.<br><br><b>Gehenna</b><br><br>One of the most notable references related to the concept of a dump is Gehenna. Gehenna, or the Valley of Hinnom, was located outside the walls of Jerusalem. Historically, it was associated with idolatrous practices, including child sacrifices to the god Molech (<a href="/2_kings/23-10.htm">2 Kings 23:10</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/7-31.htm">Jeremiah 7:31</a>). By the time of the New Testament, Gehenna had become a symbol of judgment and eternal damnation, often translated as "hell" in English Bibles. It was thought to be a place where refuse and the bodies of criminals were burned, creating a vivid image of destruction and unquenchable fire (<a href="/mark/9-43.htm">Mark 9:43-48</a>).<br><br><b>Refuse and Uncleanliness</b><br><br>The Law of Moses contained specific instructions regarding cleanliness and the disposal of waste. <a href="/deuteronomy/23-12.htm">Deuteronomy 23:12-14</a> instructs the Israelites to designate a place outside the camp for the disposal of human waste, emphasizing the importance of maintaining cleanliness and holiness in the camp because "the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you."<br><br><b>Symbolism of Refuse</b><br><br>In the prophetic literature, refuse and waste are often used symbolically to represent spiritual corruption and moral decay. For example, <a href="/isaiah/64-6.htm">Isaiah 64:6</a> compares human righteousness to "filthy rags," illustrating the inadequacy of human efforts apart from divine grace. Similarly, the imagery of refuse is used to depict the worthlessness of idols and false gods (<a href="/isaiah/41-24.htm">Isaiah 41:24</a>).<br><br><b>New Testament References</b><br><br>In the New Testament, the concept of waste and refuse is used metaphorically to convey spiritual truths. The Apostle Paul, in <a href="/philippians/3-8.htm">Philippians 3:8</a>, speaks of considering all things as "rubbish" compared to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ. The Greek word used here, "skubalon," can be translated as "dung" or "refuse," underscoring the radical transformation of values that comes with faith in Christ.<br><br><b>Cultural Practices</b><br><br>While the Bible does not provide detailed descriptions of waste management practices, archaeological findings and historical records suggest that ancient cities had designated areas for refuse disposal. These areas were often located outside city walls to maintain hygiene and prevent the spread of disease.<br><br><b>Conclusion</b><br><br>The biblical references to refuse, waste, and places like Gehenna serve as powerful symbols of judgment, purification, and the transformative power of God's grace. They reflect the broader biblical themes of holiness, redemption, and the ultimate triumph of God's kingdom over sin and corruption.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.<p>3. (<I>v. t.</I>) Absence of mind; revery.<p>4. (<I>n.</I>) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.<p>5. (<I>n.</I>) An old kind of dance.<p>6. (<I>v. t.</I>) To knock heavily; to stump.<p>7. (<I>v. t.</I>) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.<p>8. (<I>n.</I>) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.<p>9. (<I>n.</I>) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.<p>10. (<I>n.</I>) That which is dumped.<p>11. (<I>n.</I>) A pile of ore or rock.<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/8210.htm"><span class="l">8210. shaphak -- to pour out, pour</span></a><br><b>...</b> root Definition to pour out, pour NASB Word Usage cast (5), cast up a siege (1),<br> <b>dump</b> (1), gushed (1), pour (34), poured (26), pouring (1), pours (5), raise (1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8210.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/gordon/quiet_talks_on_service/foreign_exchange.htm"><span class="l">Foreign Exchange.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Just leave it over on that <b>dump</b> heap there outside the gate, and come in yourself."<br> And the man comes in with a strangely stripped and bare feeling. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/foreign exchange.htm</font><p><a href="/library/various/the_heidelberg_catechism_/question_98_but_may_not.htm"><span class="l">But May not Images be Tolerated in the Churches, as Books to the <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> No: for we must not pretend to be wiser than God, who will have his people taught,<br> not by <b>dump</b> images, [275] but by the lively preaching of his word. [276]. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../various/the heidelberg catechism /question 98 but may not.htm</font><p><a href="/library/pink/the_redeemers_return/vii_the_redeemers_return_is.htm"><span class="l">The Redeemer's Return is Necessitated by the Present Degradation <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the <b>dump</b> sing: for in<br> the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../pink/the redeemers return/vii the redeemers return is.htm</font><p><a href="/library/rees/the_heart-cry_of_jesus/chapter_iv_christs_prayer_answered.htm"><span class="l">Christ's Prayer Answered.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Under severe and protracted temptation the will snaps and yields, and the beautiful<br> life is a wreck and fit only for the <b>dump</b> of the Universe. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../rees/the heart-cry of jesus/chapter iv christs prayer answered.htm</font><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_9_1863/grace_abounding.htm"><span class="l">Grace Abounding</span></a> <br><b>...</b> nor evil, the purpose of election still stood; while we were yet like clay in the<br> mass of creatureship, and God had power to make of the same <b>dump</b> a vessel to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 9 1863/grace abounding.htm</font><p><a href="/library/augustine/confessions_and_enchiridion/book_two_he_concentrates_here.htm"><span class="l">Book Two He Concentrates Here on his Sixteenth Year, a Year of <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> We carried off a huge load of pears, not to eat ourselves, but to <b>dump</b> out<br> to the hogs, after barely tasting some of them ourselves. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book two he concentrates here.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/d/dump.htm"><span class="l"><b>Dump</b> (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7. (vt) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from<br> a cart by tilting it; as, to <b>dump</b> sand, coal, etc. <b>...</b><b>Dump</b> (1 Occurrence). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dump.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/g/gate.htm"><span class="l">Gate (248 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> any kind of refuse. The gate was probably so named because outside it<br> was the general <b>dump</b> heap of the city. Visitors in recent <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/g/gate.htm - 63k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/dung.htm"><span class="l">Dung (27 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> any kind of refuse. The gate was probably so named because outside it<br> was the general <b>dump</b> heap of the city. Visitors in recent <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dung.htm - 20k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/dumbfounded.htm"><span class="l">Dumbfounded (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dumbfounded.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/dumped.htm"><span class="l">Dumped (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of <b>Dump</b>. Multi-Version Concordance<br> Dumped (1 Occurrence). Leviticus 14:41 and he shall cause <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dumped.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/a/architecture.htm"><span class="l">Architecture</span></a><br><b>...</b> They lay claim to no particular "lay out" and, in all probability, they served as<br> space for the <b>dump</b> heaps of the town refuse or for the pen ning-up of cattle <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/a/architecture.htm - 28k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/worm-will-not-die.html">What is the worm that will not die in Mark 9:48? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/fire-and-brimstone.html">Is hell literally a place of fire and brimstone? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Codex-Sinaiticus-Vaticanus.html">What are Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/dump.htm">Dump: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Dump (1 Occurrence)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/14-41.htm">Leviticus 14:41</a></span><br />and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/d/dump.htm">Dump</a></p><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/d/dump.htm">Dump (1 Occurrence)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/d/dung.htm">Dung (27 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/p/potter.htm">Potter (14 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/p/pottery.htm">Pottery (11 Occurrences)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/topical/d/dumbfounded.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Dumbfounded"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Dumbfounded" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/topical/d/dumped.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Dumped"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Dumped" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /> <div align="center"> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>