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Strong's #8347: Sheshak (pronounced shay-shak')

of foreign derivation; Sheshak, a symbol. name of Babylon:--Sheshach.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁׁ

shêshak

Sheshach = "thy fine linen"

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

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: of foreign derivation



Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Jeremiah 25:26: "the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after"
Jeremiah 51:41: "How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how"









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