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title: שֵׁשַׁי — Sheshai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׁשַׁי (8344), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Sheshai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. son of Anaḳ. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׁשַׁי

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«שֵׁשַׁי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sheshai** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 8344 · **BDB:** שֵׁשַׁי

### Glosses

Sheshai (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sheshai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8344/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. son of Anaḳ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8344/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a son of Anaḳ (Aramaic form, cf. GFM Ju);—Nu 13;22; Jos 15:14 (both JE), Ju 1:10; Σεσ(σ)ει, Σουσαι, Σουσει.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׁשַׁי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8344/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.14/)

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וַיֹּ֤רֶשׁ מִשָּׁם֙ כָּלֵ֔ב אֶת־שְׁלוֹשָׁ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י הָעֲנָ֑ק אֶת־שֵׁשַׁ֤י וְאֶת־אֲחִימַן֙ וְאֶת־תַּלְמַ֔י יְלִידֵ֖י הָעֲנָֽק׃

*Word for word:* and he.dispossessed from there Caleb (et) three the.sons of.(the) Anak (et) Sheshai and (et) Ahiman and (et) Talmai those.born of.(the) Anak

*JPS 1917:* And Caleb drove out thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

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[Numbers 13:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.22/)

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וַיַּעֲל֣וּ בַנֶּגֶב֮ וַיָּבֹ֣א עַד־חֶבְרוֹן֒ וְשָׁ֤ם אֲחִימַן֙ שֵׁשַׁ֣י וְתַלְמַ֔י יְלִידֵ֖י הָעֲנָ֑ק וְחֶבְר֗וֹן שֶׁ֤בַע שָׁנִים֙ נִבְנְתָ֔ה לִפְנֵ֖י צֹ֥עַן מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up in the Negev and he.came to Hebron and.\[were\] there Ahiman Sheshai and Talmai those.born of.(the) Anak and Hebron seven years it.was.built before Zoan Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. — Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. —

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