H8347 שֵׁשַׁךְ (Shêshak) shay-shak'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Babylon

Strong's Definition

Sheshak, a symbolic name of Babylon

Derivation: of foreign derivation;

KJV Usage: Sheshach.

TWOT Reference: 2475

Outline of Biblical Usage

Sheshach = "thy fine linen"

1) another name for Babylon apparently taken from the goddess 'Shach'

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

שֵׁשַׁךְ (she.shakh) — Babylon. Sheshach = "thy fine linen" another name for Babylon apparently taken from the goddess 'Shach' Another name of ba.vel (בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל "Babylon" H0894)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

שֵׁשַׁךְ (H8347)

name

Names of Locations | ≈ בָּבֶל

Sheshach, Babel = cryptic name for Babylon

JER 25:26 · JER 51:41

¹ JER 25:26 This is a so-called atbash cipher, by which the aleph is encoded as a taw, the beth as a sin/shin, the gimel as a resh, etc.

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שֵׁשַׁךְ n.pr.terr. base

Bible Occurrences (2)

25:26 51:41

Jeremiah 25:26

all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another — all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink [it too].

Jeremiah 51:41

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!