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שֵׁשַׁי

Shêshay · H8344 · Hebrew · proper noun · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Seshai

    Man; giant; descendant of Anak

    Examples

    Numbers 13:22 When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

    Joshua 15:14 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

    Judges 1:10 So Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (the name of Hebron was previously Kiriath-arba); and they struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
This proper name identifies Sheshai, one of the descendants of Anak living in Hebron, as in Numbers 13:22.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8344. Sheshay שֵׁשַׁי proper name, masculine a son of Anak (Aramaic form, compare…
H8344. Sheshay
שֵׁשַׁי proper name, masculine a son of Anak (Aramaic form, compare GFMJu); — Num 13:22; Jos 15:14 (both J E), Jdg 1:10; Σες(ς)ει, Σουσαι, Σουσει.
שִׁשִּׁית שִׁשִּׁים, שִׁשִּׁי, see שֵׁשׁ below שׁדשׁ.

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 People3 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

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