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# סִסְמַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5581

**Sisamai** — used 2 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

Sisamai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5581/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִֽסְמַי: pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5581/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr.m. name in Judah (on Ph. n.pr. div. ססם(י) v. Lzb 330 Ren in CIS i. No. 95, 3, al. BaeRel. 64 f. Kit 1 Ch 2; 40);—ס׳ 1 Ch 2:40 b, סִֽסְמָ֑י v 40 a; 𝔊 Σοσομαι, 𝔊L Σασαμει.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sismai (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.40/#tree)

וְאֶלְעָשָׂה֙ הֹלִ֣יד אֶת־סִֽסְמָ֔י וְסִסְמַ֖י הֹלִ֥יד אֶת־שַׁלּֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* and Eleasah he.fathered (et) Sismai and Sismai he.fathered (et) Shallum

*JPS 1917:* and Eleasah begot Sisamai, and Sisamai begot Shallum;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5581.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5581/): 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).