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# יִשַׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3448

**Jesse** — used 42 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jesse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3448/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִשַׁי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3448/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of David (etym. dub.; Ol§ 277 f. conj. יֵשׁ יָהּ; We 1 S 14:49 ישׁי = אישׁי = אבישׁי (but see this))—יִשַׁי 1 S 16:3 + 29 times; יִשָׁ֑י v 19 + 10 times; 𝔊 Ιεσσαι; (וְ)אִישַׁי 1 Ch 2:13;—+ יִשַׁי בֵּית־הַלַּחְמִי Jesse the Bethlehemite 1 S 16:1, 18 (בֶּן־ישׁי וגו׳, of David), 17:58†; ישׁי also 16:3 + 14 times 1 S 16, 17; †son of עוֹבֵד according to Ru 4:17, 22(×2) = 1 Ch 2:12; דָּוִ(י)ד בֶּן־ישׁי 2 S 23:1; 1 Ch 10:14; 29:26 ψ 72:20; אֱלִיאָב בֶּן־ישׁי 2 Ch 11:18; elsewhere בֶּן־ישׁי alone = David, 1 S 20:27, 30, 31; 22:7, 8, 9, 13; 25:10; 2 S 20:1; 1 K 12:16 = 2 Ch 10:16, 1 Ch 12:18; גֶּזַע יִשָׁ֑י Is 11:1; שֹׁרֶשׁ יִשַׁי v 10 of Jesse as ancestor of future (Messianic) king†.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jesse (21); Jesse (20); \[was\] Jesse (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.20/#tree)

כָּלּ֥וּ תְפִלּ֑וֹת דָּ֝וִ֗ד בֶּן־יִשָֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* they.are.finished the.prayers of.David the.son of.Jesse

*JPS 1917:* The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

[1 Chronicles 29:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.26/#tree)

וְדָוִיד֙ בֶּן־יִשָׁ֔י מָלַ֖ךְ עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and David the.son of.Jesse he.reigned over all Israel

*JPS 1917:* Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3448.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3448/): 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).