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# עָסִיס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6071

**sweet wine** — used 5 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

sweet wine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6071/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָסִיס: n.m. sweet wine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6071/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jo 1:5 sweet wine (proposes pressed out juice);—abs. ע׳ Am 9:13 (v. Dr and reff.), Jo 1:5; 4:18; in sim. Is 49:26; cstr. עֲסִיס רִמֹּנִי Ct 8:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sweet wine (3); of the juice (1); wine (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.5/#tree)

הָקִ֤יצוּ שִׁכּוֹרִים֙ וּבְכ֔וּ וְהֵילִ֖לוּ כָּל־שֹׁ֣תֵי יָ֑יִן עַל־עָסִ֕יס כִּ֥י נִכְרַ֖ת מִפִּיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* awake O.drunkards and weep and wail O.all \[you.who\].drink (of).wine on sweet.wine (dm) it.has.been.cut.off from mouth your

*JPS 1917:* Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

[Song of Songs 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.2/#tree)

אֶנְהָֽגֲךָ֗ אֲבִֽיאֲךָ֛ אֶל־בֵּ֥ית אִמִּ֖י תְּלַמְּדֵ֑נִי אַשְׁקְךָ֙ מִיַּ֣יִן הָרֶ֔קַח מֵעֲסִ֖יס רִמֹּנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* I will.lead.you I will.bring.you to the.house my.mother my \[who\].she taught.me I will.give.you.to.drink some of.(the).wine of.(the) spice some of.the.juice my.pomegranate my

*JPS 1917:* I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6071.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6071/): 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).