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# שֵׁשַׁךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8347

**Sheshach** — used 2 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

Sheshach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8347/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁשַׁךְ: n.pr. terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8347/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. terr. = בָּבֶל (Jer Rabb. and mod.; by Atbaš (את׳בש׳) v. improb.), late Bab. Šešku, name of Babylon (Delitzsch Paradies 215);—Je 51:41 and hence (perhaps gloss) 25:26 (v. Gie).

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Sheshach (1); of Sheshach (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.41/#tree)

אֵ֚יךְ נִלְכְּדָ֣ה שֵׁשַׁ֔ךְ וַתִּתָּפֵ֖שׂ תְּהִלַּ֣ת כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ אֵ֣יךְ הָיְתָ֧ה לְשַׁמָּ֛ה בָּבֶ֖ל בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* how! it.will.be.captured Sheshach and it.has.been.seized the.praise of.all the earth how! it.will.become (into).a horror Babylon among the nations

*JPS 1917:* How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

[Jeremiah 25:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.26/#tree)

וְאֵ֣ת ׀ כָּל־מַלְכֵ֣י הַצָּפ֗וֹן הַקְּרֹבִ֤ים וְהָֽרְחֹקִים֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֔יו וְאֵת֙ כָּל־הַמַּמְלְכ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הָאֲדָמָ֑ה וּמֶ֥לֶךְ שֵׁשַׁ֖ךְ יִשְׁתֶּ֥ה אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all the.kings of the.north (the) near and (the) far each to brother his and (et) all the kingdoms of the.earth which \[are\].on the.surface of the.ground and the.king of.Sheshach he.will.drink after them

*JPS 1917:* and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth. — And the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8347.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8347/): 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).