King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8347
Transliteration: Sheshak
Phonetic Spelling: (shay-shak')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a name for Bab
Meaning: Sheshach -- a name for Babylon
Word 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).