עָסִיס
a.sis
sweet
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# H6071 (עָסִיס): Sweet Wine and Grape Juice The Hebrew word *asis* denotes something sweet, appearing five times in the biblical text. Based on its limited occurrences, this term appears to have specialized usage rather than serving as a general descriptor of sweetness. The word's infrequency suggests it carried either a technical or poetic function within biblical Hebrew, reserved for particular contexts rather than everyday application. Without access to the specific passages where *asis* appears, the exact contexts of its usage cannot be determined from the lexicon data alone. However, the definition "sweet" indicates the word functioned to describe flavor or taste qualities, likely in contexts involving consumable products or metaphorical applications of sweetness. The scarcity of occurrences (only 5 instances) implies that biblical writers chose other vocabulary more commonly to express this concept, making *asis* a notable but specialized term in the Hebrew vocabulary.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
5 total occurrences across the text
I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
Isaiah 49:26I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 3:18It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.
Amos 9:13“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.