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HebrewH8344Proper Noun (Masculine)

שֵׁשַׁי

she.shay

3Occurrences
H8344Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Sheshai, a Canaanite

probably for H8343 (שָׁשַׁי);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שֵׁשַׁי appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
1
Joshua
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

Judges 1:10BSB

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

Joshua 15:14BSB

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

Numbers 13:22BSB

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.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.