Word

יִשַׁי

Yishay · H3448 · Hebrew · proper noun · 42 occurrences

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Person

Jessefirst named in Ruth 4:1744 verses

Meanings

Jesse

A man, son of Obed of the tribe of Judah and father of David

Examples
Ruth 4:17 And the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi!” So they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Ruth 4:22 and Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
1 Samuel 16:1 Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, because I have chosen a king for Myself among his sons.”

How it’s used In 6 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

אָבfather 1
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1

What it doesIt is the subject

8 occurrences in 6 groups

יָלַדto bear 2
עָבַרto pass 2
לָקַחto take, to receive 1
אָמַרto say 1
צָוָהto give orders 1
קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

יָלַדto bear 2
קָדַשׁto consecrate, to sanctify 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שֵׁםname 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 12
לto/for 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

21 occurrences in 4 groups

בֵּןson 18
אָבfather 1
גֶּזַעstump 1
שֶׁרֶשׁroot 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.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Jesse is the father of David, a central figure in the genealogical and narrative accounts of Ruth, Samuel, and the prophetic literature.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3448. Yishay יִשַׁי41 proper name, masculine father of David (etymology dubious; Ol§ 277…

H3448. Yishay
יִשַׁי41 proper name, masculine father of David (etymology dubious; Ol§ 277 f. conjecture יָהּ יֵשׁ; We1Sa 14:49 ישׁי = אישׁי = אבישׁי (but see this)) — יִשַׁי 1Sa 16:3 29t.; יִשָׁ֑י 1Sa 16:19 1Sa 16:10t.; ᵐ5 Ιεσσαι; (וְ)אִישַׁי 1Ch 2:13; — הַלַּחְמִי בֵּיתֿ יִשַׁי jesse the Bethlehemite 1Sa 16:1, 1Sa 16:18 (וגו ׳בֶּןיֿשׁי, of David), 1Sa 17:58 ; ישׁי also 1Sa 16:3 1Sa 16:14t. 1Sa 16:17; son of עוֺבֵד according to Rth 4:17, Rth 4:22 (twice in verse) = 1Ch 2:12; בֶּןיֿשׁי דָּוִ(י)ד 2Sa 23:1; 1Ch 10:14; 1Ch 29:26; Psa 72:20; בֶּןיֿשׁי אֱלִיאָב2Ch 11:18; elsewhere בֶּןיֿשׁי alone = David, 1Sa 20:27, 1Sa 20:30, 1Sa 20:31; 1Sa 22:7-8, 1Sa 22:9, 1Sa 22:13; 1Sa 25:10; 2Sa 20:1; 1Ki 12:16> = 2Ch 10:16; 1Ch 12:18; יִשָׁ֑י גֶּזַע Isa 11:1; יְשֵׁי שֹׁרֶשׁ Isa 11:10 of Jesse as ancestor of future (Messianic) king.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People42 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