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title: אֲשִׁישָׁה — raisin-cake · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲשִׁישָׁה (808), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: raisin-cake. BDB 1906: n.f. raisin-cake. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲשִׁישָׁה

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«אֲשִׁישָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **raisin-cake** — 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:** 808 · **BDB:** אֲשִׁישָׁה

### Glosses

the.raisin-cakes (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲשִׁישָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/808/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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