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# יִשְׁעִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3469

**Ishi** — used 5 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

Ishi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3469/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִשְׁעִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3469/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (salutary)— one of the line of Jerahmeel 1 Ch 2:31(×2), 𝔊 Ισεμιηλ, A Ιεσει, 𝔊L Ιεσσουει. a chief of Manasseh 1 Ch 5:24, 𝔊 Σεει, Ιεσ(σ)ει. a chief of Judah 1 Ch 4:20. a chief of Simeon 1 Ch 4:42.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Ishi (3); Ishi (1); \[were\] Ishi (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.31/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י אַפַּ֖יִם יִשְׁעִ֑י וּבְנֵ֤י יִשְׁעִי֙ שֵׁשָׁ֔ן וּבְנֵ֥י שֵׁשָׁ֖ן אַחְלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Appaim \[were\].Ishi and the.sons of.Ishi \[were\].Sheshan and the.sons of.Sheshan \[were\].Ahlai

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

[1 Chronicles 4:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.20/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י שִׁימ֔וֹן אַמְנ֣וֹן וְרִנָּ֔ה בֶּנ־חָנָ֖ןבֶּנ־חָנָ֖ן וְתִיל֑וֹן וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׁעִ֔י זוֹחֵ֖ת וּבֶנ־זוֹחֵֽתבֶנ־זוֹחֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Shimon \[were\].Amnon and Rinnah Ben-Hanan Ben-Hanan and Tilon and the.sons of.Ishi \[were\].Zoheth and Ben Zoheth

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3469.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3469/): 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).