BDB848 [H809 H808]

אֲשִׁישָׁה noun feminine (pressed) raisin-cake — ׳א 2Sam 6:19; 1Chr 16:3 distributed, with other viands, to people; especially as stimulating, plural אֲשִׁישׁוֺת Song 2:5 more explicitly אֲשִׁישֵׁי עֲנָבִים Hos 3:1 used in sacrificial feasts (compare RS^{OTJC Lect. xi. n. 7}); אֲשִׁישֵׁי קִיר חֲרֶשֶׂת Isa 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.

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