Lexicon Sheshak: a name for Bab. Original Word: שֵׁשַׁךPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Sheshak Phonetic Spelling: (shay-shak') Short Definition: Sheshach NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona name for Bab. NASB TranslationSheshach (1), Sheshak (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שֵׁשַׁךְ proper name, of a territory = בָּבֶל (Jerome Rabb and modern; by Atbaš ( ׳בש׳את), i.e. disguising name by substituting last letter of alphabet for first, next last for second, etc., compare Thes); — Jeremiah 51:41 and hence (perhaps gloss) Jeremiah 25:26 (see Gie). Strong's Sheshach Of foreign derivation; Sheshak, a symbol. Name of Babylon -- Sheshach. |
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