Flagon

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 1min
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 10
1. ashishah, treated in the A. V. as a measure, but now generally understood to signify a “cake of raisins,” the raisins being pressed into a cake, in the same way that figs are. In 2 Samuel 6:1919And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house. (2 Samuel 6:19) and 1 Chronicles 16:33And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. (1 Chronicles 16:3), the words “of wine” have been added. In Song of {s 22221}Solomon 2:55Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. (Song of Solomon 2:5) it is simply “flagons.” In Hosea 3:1 The words “of wine” are not added, but should be translated, as in the margin, “of grapes,” signifying as before “cakes of raisins.”
2. rebel, a bottle, irrespective of its measure (Isa. 22:2424And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. (Isaiah 22:24)). The word is several times translated “bottle.”