אַשְׁפָּה, , to heap up, cmp. Is. XIII, 2, Ps. XXII, 16) pile, dunghill. Y. Keth. I, 25ᵈ bot. אי׳. Ḥull. 12ᵃ; a. fr.—שער הא׳ (b. h. ש׳ האשפת, ש׳ השפת) Hill Gate, name of a Jerusalem gate. Sabb. 15ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. אַשְׁפּוֹת. Ex. R. s. 10 ארבע א׳ four heaps (of dead frogs, = b. h. חמרים); a. fr.—Euphem. מערה לא׳ using means to prevent conception (applied to both man a. woman). Keth. VII, 5. (Ib. 72ᵃ, acc. to Boraitha, literally, ‘to draw water and pour it out on the dunghill’—as a foolish act). Gen. R. s. 85, ref. to Gen. XXXVIII, 7.—[Homiletic interpretation of בני אשפתו, Lam. III, 13, ‘the sons of those laid low’ (conquered); Lam. R. a. l., Esth. R. to I, 1ᵇ, v. אוֹפִיכָא, אוּכַּיְיפָא.]