ashima Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
ashima in Smith's Bible Dictionary
a god of the Hamathite colonists in Samaria. #2Ki 17:30| It has been regarded as identical with the Pan of the Greeks.
ashima in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
ASH'IMA . 2 Kgs 17:30. The name of the god the Hamathite colonists introduced into Samaria
ashima in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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.