Lexicon ashishah: a raisin cake Original Word: אֲשִׁישֵׁיPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: ashishah Phonetic Spelling: (ash-ee-shaw') Short Definition: cakes NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ashashDefinitiona raisin cake NASB Translationcakes (1), raisin cake (1), raisin cakes (2), raisin* (1), raisins (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֲשִׁישָׁה noun feminine (pressed) raisin-cake — ׳א 2 Samuel 6:19; 1 Chronicles 16:3 distributed, with other viands, to people; especially as stimulating, plural אֲשִׁישׁוֺת Songs 2:5; more explicitly אֲשִׁישֵׁי עֲנָבִים Hosea 3:1 used in sacrificial feasts (compare RS OTJC Lect. xi. n. 7); אֲשִׁישֵׁי קִיר חֲרֶשֶׂת Isaiah 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.
Strong's flagon Feminine of 'ashiysh; something closely pressed together, i.e. A cake of raisins or other comfits -- flagon. see HEBREW 'ashiysh |
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