Lexical Summary Sheshak: a name for Bab Original Word: שֵׁשַׁךְTransliteration: Sheshak Phonetic Spelling: (shay-shak') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a name for Bab Meaning: Sheshach -- a name for Babylon Strong's Concordance Sheshach Of foreign derivation; Sheshak, a symbol. Name of Babylon -- Sheshach. Brown-Driver-Briggs H8347. Sheshak שֵׁשַׁךְ proper name, of a territory = בָּבֶל (Jerome Rabb and modern; by Atbaš (׳בש׳את), i.e. disguising name by substituting last letter of alphabet for first, next last for second, etc., compare Thes); — Jeremiah 51:41 and hence (perhaps gloss) 25:26 (see Gie). |
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