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Flagon
Heb. ashishah, (2 Sam 6:19; 1 Chr 16:3; Song 2:5; Hos 3:1), meaning properly “a cake of pressed raisins.” “Flagons of wine” of the Authorized Version should be, as in the Revised Version, “cakes of raisins” in all these passages. In Isa 22:24 it is the rendering of the Hebrew nebel, which properly means a bottle or vessel of skin. (Comp. 1 Sam 1:24; 1 Sam 10:3; 1 Sam 25:18; 2 Sam 16:1, where the same Hebrew word is used.)
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
