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# אֲשִׁישָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H808

**raisin-cake** — 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

raisin-cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/808/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲשִׁישָׁה: n.f. raisin-cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/808/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (pressed) raisin-cake—א׳ 2 S 6:19 1 Ch 16:3 distributed, with other viands, to people, especially as stimulating, pl. אֲשִׁישׁוֹת Ct 2:5; more explicitly אֲשִׁישֵׁי עֲנָבִים Ho 3:1 used in sacrificial feasts (cf. RSOTJC Lect. xi. n. 7); אֲשִׁישֵׁי קִיר חֲרֶשֶׂת Is 16:7, i.e. the raisin-cakes which were an article of trade at Qir-ḥareseth (taken by Thes al. = foundations, i.e. foundations exposed by ruin, from \[אָשִׁישׁ\] with such a meaning).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 16:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.7/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן יְיֵלִ֥יל מוֹאָ֛ב לְמוֹאָ֖ב כֻּלֹּ֣ה יְיֵלִ֑יל לַאֲשִׁישֵׁ֧י קִיר־חֲרֶ֛שֶׂתקִיר־חֲרֶ֛שֶׂת תֶּהְגּ֖וּ אַךְ־נְכָאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.will.wail Moab for Moab of.it all it.will.wail for the.raisin-cakes of Kir.Hareseth you.will.groan only stricken.people

*JPS 1917:* Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, sorely stricken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/808.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/808/): 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).