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flagon

Hebrew: ashishah

(2 Samuel 6:19; 1 Chronicles 16:3; Song of Songs 2:5; Hos. 3:1)

meaning properly “a cake of pressed raisins”

“Flagons of wine” of the King James Version should be, as in the Revised King James Version, “cakes of raisins” in all these passages.

In Isaiah 22:24 it is the rendering of the Hebrew nebel, which properly means a bottle or vessel of skin. (Compare 1 Samuel 1:24; 10:3; 25:18; 2 Samuel 16:1, where the same Hebrew word is used.)

More information

• Use of animal skins in the Bible
• Bottle
• About wine in the Bible
• Cup
• Answers about raisins in the Bible