אַשִׁימָאʼAshîymâʼ
אֲשִׁימָא: proper name [masculine]: a god of Hamath (2 Kings 17:30)
Pronunciation: ash-ee-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H807
Meanings
בָּאַשׁ: have a bad smell, stink
Qal: stink (Exodus 7:18; Exodus 7:21; Exodus 16:20)
Niph`al: only figurative make oneself odious, become odious (compare English be in bad odour), followed by אֵת with = towards; נִבְאַשְׁתָּ אֶתאָֿבִיךָ 2Sam 16:21 thou hast become odious with thy father; also followed by בְּ (rather strangely) 1Sam 13:4 Israel made themselves odious to the Philistines; 2Sam 10:6 Ammonites to David (1 Samuel 13:4; 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 16:2)
Hiph`il: construct suffix (Exodus 16:24; 1 Samuel 27:12; Psalms 38:6)
1. emit a stinking odour (Exodus 16:24; Exodus 16:20; Psalms 38:6)
2. cause to stink (Exodus 5:21; Genesis 34:30; Proverbs 13:5)
Hithpa`el: they had made themselves odious (1 Chronicles 19:6; 2 Samuel 10:6)
Where it appears
Appears 1 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 17:30 Those from Babylon worshiped idols of their god Succoth-benoth. Those from Cuthah worshiped their god Nergal. And those from Hamath worshiped Ashima.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).