Hebrew word · H3441

יִשְׁוִי

haiyishvi

Ishvite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Someone descended from Ishvi who was a man of the tribe of Asher living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.17;

son of: Asher (H0836);

brother of: Imnah (H3232), Ishvah (H3438), Beriah (H1283) and Serah (H8294)

Group of yish.vi (יִשְׁוִי "Ishvi" H3440)

§ Jesuites , of Jesui "he will justify me"

the descendants of Jesui ( yish.vi (יִשְׁוִי "Ishvi" H3440)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 26:44 הַיִּשְׁוִ֑י the Ishvite[s]

    These were the descendants of Asher by their clans: The Imnite clan from Imnah, the Ishvite clan from Ishvi, and the Beriite clan from Beriah.

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