ASHIMA . A god whose form of worship is unknown, and who has been identified with the PhÅ“nician Eshmun and the Babylonian Tashmitu. As Hamath, the god’s seat of worship ( 2 Kings 17:30 ), was occupied by the Hittites, the deity was probably non-Semitic.
N. Koenig.
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