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# אָשְׁיָה

Biblical Hebrew

**buttress** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

buttress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d9_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָשְׁיָה: n.f. wall, bulwark n.f. buttress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d9_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wall, bulwark (Talm אָשִׁיתָא (levy Nö); Mand. אשיתא wall NöM 113; 𝔗 pl. sf. אֲשִׁיתָהָא (DalmWB אָשְׁיָתַהָא) Je 50:15, אשיתנא Ct 2:9; Arabic آسِيَة column, support is loan-word according to Frä 11);—only pl. sf. bulwarks of city of Babylon. n.f. (support) buttress (Arabic آسِيَةُن column, support. AW NöM 113, Assyrian asîtu pillar) only pl. sf. buttresses of city of Babylon Je 50:15 אשׁויתיה Kt, אָשְׁיוֹתֶיהָ Qr (‖ חוֹמוֹתֶיהָ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: towers (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 50:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.15/#tree)

הָרִ֨יעוּ עָלֶ֤יהָ סָבִיב֙ נָתְנָ֣ה יָדָ֔הּ נָֽפְלוּ֙ אָשְׁיוֹתֶ֔יהָ נֶהֶרְס֖וּ חֽוֹמוֹתֶ֑יהָ כִּי֩ נִקְמַ֨ת יְהוָ֥ה הִיא֙ הִנָּ֣קְמוּ בָ֔הּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשְׂתָ֖ה עֲשׂוּ־לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* shout.out on it all.around it.will.give hand its they.will.fall towers its they.will.be.torn.down walls its (dm) \[is\].the.vengeance of.Yahweh it avenge.yourself on it just as it.has.done do to it

*JPS 1917:* Shout against her round about, she hath submitted herself; her buttresses are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of the LORD, take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d9_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d9_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).