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Ashima
        

The idol of Hamath, introduced by the Hamathites, the colonists planted in Samaria by Esarhaddon king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:30; Ezra 4:2; Ezra 4:10); represented as a goat with short hair, answering to the Egyptian form of the Greek god Pan, to whom the goat was sacred. The Phoenician god Esmun, answering to the Greek AEsculapius as well as Pan.


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Fausset, Andrew Robert M.A., D.D., "Definition for 'ashima' Fausset's Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Fausset's; 1878.

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