Sweet
עָסִיסStrong’s H6071asis (a-sis)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Asis is the Hebrew word usually translated “sweet wine”, “some of juice of” and “like sweet wine”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.”
Meaning
- Sweet wine, wine, pressed out juice
How it's translated
- sweet wine 3
- some of juice of 1
- and like sweet wine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 2
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
- Amos 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
- Joel 1:5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
- Joel 3:18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
- Amos 9:13Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Hebrew dictionary
עָסִיס asis · sweet
sweet wine, wine, pressed out juice
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sweet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWEET, adjective
[Latin suavis.]
- Agreeable or grateful to the taste; as, sugar or honey is sweet
- Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; as a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
- Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice.
- Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; as a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion; a sweet form.
All definitions and other forms of “sweet”
- Fresh; not salt; as sweet water.
- Not sour; as sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
- Mild; soft; gentle.“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?” Job 38:31
- Mild; soft; kind; obliging; as sweet manners.
- Grateful; pleasing.
- Making soft or excellent music; as a sweet singer.
- Not stale; as sweet butter.
- Not turned; not sour; as sweet milk.
- Not putrescent or putrid; as, the meat is sweet
SWEET, noun
Something pleasing or grateful to the mind; as the sweets of domestic life.
- A sweet substance; particularly, any vegetable juice which is added to wines to improve them.
- A perfume.
- A word of endearment.
- Cane juice, melasses, or other sweet vegetable substance.
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.