HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H809
אֲשִׁישָׁה
a.shi.shah — raisin bun
1) raisin-cake, used in sacrificial feasts 1a) consistently translated in AV as "flagon of wine"
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8650
תֹּ֫רֶן
to.ren — mast
beacon, mast, flagpole
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G5416
φραγέλλιον
phragellion — whip
φραγέλλιον, -ου, τό (Lat. flagellum), a scourge: Jhn.2:15.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20494
ἡγεμόνη
hēgemonē — flagship
flagship
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7924
κατασπάω
kataspaō — to tear down
1. to draw or pull down , κ. τὰς νῆας to haul ships down to the sea , (Herdotus Historicus); κ. σημεῖα to pull the flags down (in token of defeat), (Thucydides); κ. τινὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἵππου (Xenophon Historicus) 2. to quaff or swallow down , Lat. deglutire, (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9069
σημαία
sēmaia — a flag
a standard , (Polybius Historicus):—; a band under one standard , the Roman manipulus , (Polybius Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Historical dictionary entry
(Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered “meadow” in Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows in Palestine. In Ex. 2:3, 5, Isa. 19:6, it is the rendering of the Hebrew suph_, a word which occurs frequently in connection with _yam; as yam suph, to denote the “Red Sea” (q.v.) or the sea of weeds (as this word is rendered, Jonah 2:5). It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. (See PAPER, REED.)
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.