STRONGS NUMBER H809


Word Summary
ashishah: a raisin cake
Original Word: אֲשִׁישָׁה
Transliteration: ashishah
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-ee-shaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a raisin cake
Meaning: something closely pressed together, a cake of raisins, other comfits
Strong's Concordance
flagon

Feminine of 'ashiysh; something closely pressed together, i.e. A cake of raisins or other comfits -- flagon.

see HEBREW 'ashiysh

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H809. ashishah

אֲשִׁישָׁהnoun feminine (pressed) raisin-cake׳א2 Samuel 6:19; 1 Chronicles 16:3 distributed, with other viands, to people; especially as stimulating, plural אֲשִׁישׁוֺתSong of Solomon 2:5; more explicitly עֲנָבִים אֲשִׁישֵׁיHosea 3:1 used in sacrificial feasts (compare RSOTJC Lect. xi. n. 7); חֲרֶשֶׂת קִיר אֲשִׁישֵׁיIsaiah 16:7, i.e. the raisin-cakes which were an article of trade at Qir-hareseth (taken by Thes and others = foundations, i.e. foundations exposed by ruin, from [אָשִׁישׁ‎] with such a meaning).

אֵ֫שֶׁת‎ see אִשָּׁה‎ below III. אנשׁ‎.