hebrew #8347 - שֵׁשַׁךְ Sheshak (a name for Bab)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Sheshach Of foreign derivation; Sheshak, a symbol. Name of Babylon -- Sheshach. Englishman's Concordance Sheshach=“thy fine linen” 1) another name for Babylon apparently taken from the goddess ‘Shach’ Part of Speech: noun proper locative A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of foreign derivation Same Word by TWOT Number: 2475 Brown-Driver-Briggsשֵׁשַׁךְproper 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) Jeremiah 25:26 (see Gie). Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 8347. שֵׁשַׁך (Sheshak) — 2 OccurrencesJeremiah 25:26 Jeremiah 51:41 |