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title: אֲשִׁימָא — Ashima · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲשִׁימָא (807), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ashima. BDB 1906: n.pr. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲשִׁימָא

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«אֲשִׁימָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ashima** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 807 · **BDB:** אֲשִׁימָא

### Glosses

Ashima (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲשִׁימָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/807/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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,

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