H6071 עָסִיס (ʻâçîyç) aw-sees'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

sweet

Strong's Definition

must or fresh grape-juice (as just trodden out)

Derivation: from H6072 (עָסַס);

KJV Usage: juice, new (sweet) wine.

TWOT Reference: 1660a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) sweet wine, wine, pressed out juice

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3178 G3501 G3631

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עָסִיס (a.sis) — sweet. sweet wine, wine, pressed out juice

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עָסִיס (H6071)

noun m · עסס

Liquids | Wine | Crops | ≈ חָלָב · יַיִן · מַיִם

must, fresh wine = dark red alcoholic liquid; ◄ made out of grapes through the process of fermentation and probably still relatively fresh; ► used as beverage; ≈ associated with agriculture, joy, and well-being, but also with drunkenness; also used in metaphors for aggression and sex

SNG 8:2 · ISA 49:26 · JOL 1:5 · JOL 4:18 · AMO 9:13

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עָסִיס n.m. sweet wine (prop. pressed out juice) base

Bible Occurrences (4)

49:26

1:5 3:18

9:13

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Joel 3:18

And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

Amos 9:13

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.