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HEBREW: 807 amyva 'Ashiyma'
NAVE: Ashima
SMITH: ASHIMA
ISBE: ASHIMA
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Ashima

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Ashima: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
Ashimah: AVS NRSV TEV
a pagan goddess imported from Assyria into Sameria (OS)

crime; offense

NET Glossary: the name of a goddess worshiped in Hamath in Syria (2 Kgs 17:30)

Hebrew

Strongs #0807: amyva 'Ashiyma'

Ashima = "guiltiness: I will make desolate"

1) a god of Hamath

807 'Ashiyma' ash-ee-maw'

of foreign origin; Ashima, a deity of Hamath:-Ashima.

Ashima [NAVE]

ASHIMA, an idol, 2 Kin. 17:30.

ASHIMA [SMITH]

a god of the Hamathite colonists in Samaria. (2 Kings 17:30) It has been regarded as identical with the Pan of the Greeks.

ASHIMA [ISBE]

ASHIMA - a-shi'-ma, ash'-i-ma ('ashima'; Asimath): A deity worshipped at Hamath (2 Ki 17:30) of whom nothing further is known. It has been suggested that the name is the same as that of the goddess Simi, the daughter of the supreme god Hadad, who was worshipped at Membij, but there is nothing to support the suggestion.




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