HebrewH8347Noun
שֵׁשַׁךְ
she.shakh
“Babylon”
2Occurrences
H8347Strong's #
NounPart of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Sheshak, a symbolic name of Babylon
of foreign derivation;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Sheshach = "thy fine linen" another name for Babylon apparently taken from the goddess 'Shach' Another name of ba.vel (בָּבֶ֫ל, *בָּבֶל *"Babylon" H0894)
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun
Morphology Code
N:N--L
Full Description
N:N--L
Occurrences
שֵׁשַׁךְ appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Jeremiah
2
Key Passages
Jeremiah 25:26BSB
all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
Jeremiah 51:41BSB
How Sheshach has been captured!The praise of all the earth has been seized.What a horror Babylon has becomeamong the nations!
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