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# שֵׁשַׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8344

**Sheshai** — used 3 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

Sheshai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8344/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁשַׁי: n.pr.m. son of Anaḳ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8344/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a son of Anaḳ (Aramaic form, cf. GFM Ju);—Nu 13;22; Jos 15:14 (both JE), Ju 1:10; Σεσ(σ)ει, Σουσαι, Σουσει.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 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: Sheshai (3).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.14/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤רֶשׁ מִשָּׁם֙ כָּלֵ֔ב אֶת־שְׁלוֹשָׁ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י הָעֲנָ֑ק אֶת־שֵׁשַׁ֤י וְאֶת־אֲחִימַן֙ וְאֶת־תַּלְמַ֔י יְלִידֵ֖י הָעֲנָֽק׃

*Word for word:* and he.dispossessed from there Caleb (et) three the.sons of.(the) Anak (et) Sheshai and (et) Ahiman and (et) Talmai those.born of.(the) Anak

*JPS 1917:* And Caleb drove out thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

[Numbers 13:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.22/#tree)

וַיַּעֲל֣וּ בַנֶּגֶב֮ וַיָּבֹ֣א עַד־חֶבְרוֹן֒ וְשָׁ֤ם אֲחִימַן֙ שֵׁשַׁ֣י וְתַלְמַ֔י יְלִידֵ֖י הָעֲנָ֑ק וְחֶבְר֗וֹן שֶׁ֤בַע שָׁנִים֙ נִבְנְתָ֔ה לִפְנֵ֖י צֹ֥עַן מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up in the Negev and he.came to Hebron and.\[were\] there Ahiman Sheshai and Talmai those.born of.(the) Anak and Hebron seven years it.was.built before Zoan Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. — Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8344.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8344/): 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).