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# שֵׁשָׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8348

**Sheshan** — 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

Sheshan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8348/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁשָׁן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8348/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Judah 1 Ch 2:31(×2) (with one son), v 34(×2), 35 (no sons, but daughters, cf. Benz Kit); Σωσαν\[μ\], 𝔊L Σισαν.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sheshan (3); \[were\] Sheshan (1); of Sheshan (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 2:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.34/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־הָיָ֧ה לְשֵׁשָׁ֛ן בָּנִ֖ים כִּ֣י אִם־בָּנ֑וֹת וּלְשֵׁשָׁ֛ן עֶ֥בֶד מִצְרִ֖י וּשְׁמ֥וֹ יַרְחָֽע׃

*Word for word:* and not it.belonged to Sheshan sons (dm) (if) daughters and.\[belonged\] to Sheshan a.slave Egyptian and name his \[was\].Jarha

*JPS 1917:* Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8348.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8348/): 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).