Strong’s H8347 · Hebrew
שֵׁשַׁךְ
Shêshak · shay-shak'
Origin of foreign derivation;
Meaning Sheshak, a symbolic name of Babylon
In the King James Version Sheshach.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Jeremiah 25:26And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
- Jeremiah 51:41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.