Reference: Ashima

A deity adored by the men of Hamath, who were settled in Samaria, 2Ki 17:30.

The idol of Hamath, introduced by the Hamathites, the colonists planted in Samaria by Esarhaddon king of Assyria (2Ki 17:24,30; Ezr 4:2,10); 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.

A god whose form of worship is unknown, and who has been identified with the Ph

Ash'ima

An idol introduced into Samaria by the colonists sent from Hamath by the king of Assyria. 2Ki 17:30.

Ash'ima,

a god of the Hamathite colonists in Samaria.

2Ki 17:30

It has been regarded as identical with the Pan of the Greeks.