Lexical Definition

‎אֲשִׁישָׁה‎ ʼăshîyshâh (ash-ee-shaw') raisin bun ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎אָשִׁישׁ‎

flagon.

• something closely pressed together, i.e. a cake of raisins or other comfits

1) raisin-cake, used in sacrificial feasts
1a) consistently translated in AV as "flagon of wine"

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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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