Lexicon
עָסִיס
a.sis
H6071
H:N-M Hebrew

sweet

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Hebrew
Language

a.sis denotes a sweet drink or juice, and in imagery the sweetness said to drip from mountains.

The attested use most often concerns a sweet drink or juice in contexts of drinking, intoxication, or pomegranate juice; Amos 9:13 applies the same term to sweetness dripping from mountains in an image of abundance.

Senses in use

  1. Sweet drink or juice · dominant

    In Joel 1:5 the absolute singular noun occurs in the warning that the drink has been cut off from drinkers' lips; the APB renders the clause "the sweet wine has been cut off from your lips." In Isaiah 49:26 it stands in the comparison of blood with a sweet intoxicating drink, while Song of Songs 8:2 uses the construct form in the phrase rendered "the juice of the pomegranate."

  2. Sweetness in abundance imagery · rare

    In Amos 9:13 the absolute singular noun occurs in the statement about mountains dripping; the APB renders this as "the mountains will drip sweetness" amid imagery of plowing, reaping, and hills melting.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "sweet wine" in Joel 1:5, in a comparison involving "sweet wine" in Isaiah 49:26, as "the juice of the pomegranate" in Song of Songs 8:2, and as "sweetness" in Amos 9:13. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.

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