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# אֲשִׁישָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H809

**raisin-cake** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

raisin-cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/809/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲשִׁישָׁה: n.f. raisin-cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/809/#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, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a raisin-cake (2); (of) cakes (1); raisin-cakes (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.5/#tree)

סַמְּכ֙וּנִי֙ בָּֽאֲשִׁישׁ֔וֹת רַפְּד֖וּנִי בַּתַּפּוּחִ֑ים כִּי־חוֹלַ֥ת אַהֲבָ֖ה אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* sustain me with (the) raisin-cakes refresh me with (the) apples (dm) \[am\].weak of.love I

*JPS 1917:* 'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'

[1 Chronicles 16:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.3/#tree)

וַיְחַלֵּק֙ לְכָל־אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מֵאִ֖ישׁ וְעַד־אִשָּׁ֑ה לְאִישׁ֙ כִּכַּר־לֶ֔חֶם וְאֶשְׁפָּ֖ר וַאֲשִׁישָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and he.distributed to every (the).person of.Israel from man and unto woman to each a.round.loaf of.bread and a.date-cake and a.raisin-cake

*JPS 1917:* And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a cake made in a pan, and a sweet cake.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/809.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/809/): 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).