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# יִסְכָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3252

**Iscah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Iscah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3252/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִסְכָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3252/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (etym. dubious)—a daughter of הָרָן, and sister of מִלְכָּה Gn 11:29, 𝔊 Ιεσχα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Iscah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 11:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.29/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֨ח אַבְרָ֧ם וְנָח֛וֹר לָהֶ֖ם נָשִׁ֑ים שֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת־אַבְרָם֙ שָׂרָ֔י וְשֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת־נָחוֹר֙ מִלְכָּ֔ה בַּת־הָרָ֥ן אֲבִֽי־מִלְכָּ֖ה וַֽאֲבִ֥י יִסְכָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Abram and Nahor for themselves wives the.name of.the.wife of.Abram \[was\].Sarai and the.name of.the.wife of.Nahor \[was\].Milcah the.daughter of.Haran the.father of.Milcah and the.father of.Iscah

*JPS 1917:* And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3252.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3252/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).