Hebrew word · H8344

שֵׁשַׁי

sheshai

Sheshai

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.13.22;

son of: Anak (H6061);

brother of: Ahiman (H0289) and Talmai (H8526)

§ Sheshai = "noble"

son of Anak, one of the giants in the land of Canaan

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

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Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 13:22 שֵׁשַׁ֣י Sheshai

    They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

    Here: The second Anakite name. The name is probably not Hebrew, which fits a non-Israelite ruling group.

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 15:14 שֵׁשַׁ֤י Sheshai

    And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

    Here: First of the three Anakite names, also in Num 13:22 and Judg 1:10. Where the name comes from is unclear. It may be non-Semitic, possibly Hurrian (a people of northern Mesopotamia and Syria).

Judges · 1

  1. Judges 1:10 שֵׁשַׁ֥י Sheshai

    Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.