אֲשִׁישָׁה
raisin cake
‘raisin cake’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H809 appears — 4 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Hosea 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אשישה — transliterated ʼăshîyshâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “raisin cake.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in 2 Samuel. It first appears in 2 Samuel 6:19. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H809 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 25%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 25%
- Song of Solomon 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Flagons 2×
- American Standard Version: Cake of raisins 1×, Cakes 1×, Flesh 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Raisin cake 2×, Raisin cakes 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Raisin cake 2×, Raisin cakes 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H809 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H809 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H809 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H809 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- raisin-cake, used in sacrificial feasts
- consistently translated in AV as " flagon of wine"
Word origin
אֲשִׁישָׁה n.f. (pressed) raisin-cake; Is 16:7
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אשיש (ʼâshîysh) (H808) — foundation.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲשִׁישָׁה
- anything made compact and substantial by pressing, whence
- 1. cake, pan-cake (in Bible pressed raisin-cake). Pes. 36ᵇ excluding from ‘bread of misery’, חלוט וא׳ pudding and pan-cake. [Talmudic etymology, ibid., ‘one sixth of an epha of flour made into a cake’.] Y. ib. II, 29ᵇ bot.—Bab. ib. l. c. Samuel says א׳ גרבא וכ׳ ăshishah (II Sam. VI, 19) means a jug of wine (v. preced.).—Pl. אֲשִׁישׁוֹת (b. h.). Ḥull. 124ᵇ אני היום סמכוני בא׳ to me to-day the Bibl. words apply, ‘Support me with cakes’ (Cant. II, 5); Bets. 21ᵃ e.g. 2 Samuel 6:19
- 2. pl. אֲשִׁישִׁים, אֲשִׁישִׁין cakes made of boiled lentils impregnated with honey. Ned. VI, 10; cmp. Y. ib. 40ᵃ bot.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H809 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲשִׁישֵׁ֥י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Hosea 3:1 | 1 |
| בָּֽ/אֲשִׁישׁ֔וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Song of Solomon 2:5 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲשִׁישָׁ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 6:19 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲשִׁישָֽׁה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 16:3 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
