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אֲשׁוּיָה

ʼăshûwyâh · H803 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Thing

Meanings

  1. bulwark, tower, bastion

    Exact meaning unknown; probably: type of fortification

    Examples

    Jeremiah 50:15 “Raise your battle cry against her on every side! She has given herself up, her towers have fallen, Her walls have been torn down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: Take vengeance on her; As she has done to others, so do to her.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Fortifications001003002003
אֲשׁוּיָה names a fortified structure or foundation, as in Jeremiah's oracle describing Babylon's towers as having fallen and her walls torn down.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אֲשׁוּיָהʼăshûwyâh · H803אֹשׁ ʼôsh · H787 · foundation · 3×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H803. ashuyah [אָשְׁיָה] noun feminine (support) buttress (Arabic column, support, AW NöM…
H803. ashuyah
[אָשְׁיָה] noun feminine (support) buttress (Arabic column, support, AW NöM 113, אוּשָּׁא ᵑ7, plural אוּשְּׁוָותָא אוּשָּׁיָיתָא,) only plural suffix buttresses of city of Babylon Jer 50:15 אשׁויתיה Kt, אָשְׁיוֺתֶיהָ Qr (|| חוֺמוֺתֶיהָ).
[אָשְׁיָה]
noun feminine wall, bulwark (Talmud אָשִׁיתָא (Levy Nö); Mandean אשיתא wall NöM 113; ᵑ7 plural suffix אֲשִׁיתָהָא (DalmWB אָשְׁיָתַהָא) Jer 50:15, אשיתנא Cant 2:9; Arabic column, support is loan-word according to Frä11); — only plural suffix bulwarks of city of Babylon,' etc.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Fortifications1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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