אֲשִׁישָׁה

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