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# אֲשִׁימָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H807

**Ashima** — 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

Ashima [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/807/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲשִׁימָא: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/807/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.\[m.\] a god of Hamath 2 K 17:30, otherwise wholly unknown.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 17:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.30/#tree)

וְאַנְשֵׁ֣י בָבֶ֗ל עָשׂוּ֙ אֶת־סֻכּ֣וֹת בְּנ֔וֹת סֻכּ֣וֹת בְּנ֔וֹת וְאַנְשֵׁי־כ֔וּת עָשׂ֖וּ אֶת־נֵֽרְגַ֑ל וְאַנְשֵׁ֥י חֲמָ֖ת עָשׂ֥וּ אֶת־אֲשִׁימָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the.people of.Babylon they.made (et) Succoth Benoth and the.people of.Cuthah they.made (et) Nergal and the.people of.Hamath they.made (et) Ashima

*JPS 1917:* And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/807.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/807/): 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).