Lexical Summary ashishah: a raisin cake Original Word: אֲשִׁישָׁהTransliteration: ashishah Phonetic Spelling: (ash-ee-shaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a raisin cake Meaning: something closely pressed together, a cake of raisins, other comfits Strong's Concordance flagon Feminine of 'ashiysh; something closely pressed together, i.e. A cake of raisins or other comfits -- flagon. see HEBREW 'ashiysh Brown-Driver-Briggs H809. ashishah 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 Song of Solomon 2:5; more explicitly עֲנָבִים אֲשִׁישֵׁי Hosea 3:1 used in sacrificial feasts (compare RSOTJC Lect. xi. n. 7); חֲרֶשֶׂת קִיר אֲשִׁישֵׁי 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. |
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