Strong's Lexicon

H808

H808 — אָשִׁישׁ

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewashiyshnoun femOccurrences: 1TWOT: 185a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H808
Word:אָשִׁישׁ
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:from the same as H784 (in the sense of pressing down firmly
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:ashiysh
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:aw-sheesh'
Meaning:1. a (ruined) foundation
KJV Renderings:foundation.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB848

אֲשִׁישָׁה noun feminine (pressed) raisin-cake׳ א 2Sam 6:19; 1Chr 16:3 distributed, with other viands, to people; especially as stimulating, plural אֲשִׁישׁוֺת Song 2:5 more explicitly אֲשִׁישֵׁי עֲנָבִים Hos 3:1 used in sacrificial feasts (compare RSOTJC Lect. xi. n. 7); אֲשִׁישֵׁי קִיר חֲרֶשֶׂת Isa 16:7, i.e. the raisin-cakes which were an article of trade at Qir-hareseth (taken by Thes and others = foundations, i.e. foundations exposed by ruin, from [אָשִׁישׁ] with such a meaning).


אֵ֫שֶׁת see אִשָּׁה below III. אנשׁ.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אשיש (ah-sheesh’)

Isaiah 16:7

KJV: Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir–hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.mourn: or, mutter
EHCC: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth
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