Word

Ἰεσσαί

Iessaí · G2421 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Person

Jessefirst named in Ruth 4:1744 verses

Meanings

Jesse

The father of King David in the genealogy of Jesus

Examples
Matthew 1:5 Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, and Obed fathered Jesse.
Matthew 1:6 Jesse fathered David the king. David fathered Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.
Luke 3:32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ΔαβίδDavid 2
ὨβήδObed 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γεννάωto beget, to be the father of, to give birth 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γεννάωto beget, to be the father of, to give birth 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ὁthe (definite article) 2
ῥίζαroot 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

יִשַׁי Yishay · H3448 · Jesse: The Hebrew name of Jesse, father of David, behind the Greek form of the name.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Jesse93.166: In Matthew 1:5, in the genealogy of Jesus it is written, “Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, and Obed fathered Jesse,” naming him directly.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Ἰεσσαιος in Josephus), ὁ (יִשַׁי (cf. B. D. American edition, under the word)), Jesse,…

(Ἰεσσαιος in Josephus), ὁ (יִשַׁי (cf. B. D. American edition, under the word)), Jesse, the father of David the king (1 Sam 16:1, 1 Sam 16:10; 1 Sam 17:12 Alex.; ): Mt 1:5; Lk 3:32; Acts 13:22; Rom 15:12.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Persons5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0