Flask
אָסוּךְStrong’s H0610asukh (a-sukh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Asukh is the Hebrew word usually translated “jar of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.”
Meaning
- Flask, small oil jug
How it's translated
- a jar of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
אָסוּךְ asukh · flask
flask, small oil jug
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flask” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FL'ASK, noun
- A kind of bottle; as a flask of wine or oil.
- A vessel for powder.
- A bed in a gun-carriage.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.