Strong's Lexicon

H809

H809 — אֲשִׁישָׁה

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

Hebrewashiyshahnoun femOccurrences: 4TWOT: 185a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H809
Word:אֲשִׁישָׁה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:feminine of H808
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:4
Transliteration:ashiyshah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:ash-ee-shaw'
Meaning:1. something closely pressed together 2. a cake of raisins or other comfits
KJV Renderings:flagon.

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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

אשישה (ashee-shah’)

Song of Songs 2:5

KJV: Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.comfort…: Heb. straw me with apples
EHCC: Stay me with .
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