ἸΕΣΣΑΙΟΝ, ἰεσσαιον
IESSAION, iessaion
Sounds Like: ee-es-SAH-ee-on
Translations: Jesse
From the root: ἸΕΣΣΑΙ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is the name of Jesse, the father of King David in the Old Testament. It is used to refer to Jesse as the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition that takes the accusative case.
Inflection: Singular, Masculine, Accusative
Strong’s number: G2421 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἸΕΣΣΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἸΕΣΣΑΙ — Jesse
- ἸΕΣΣΑΙΜΟΥ — (of) Jesse, (of) the house of Jesse, (of) the family of Jesse
- ἸΕΣΣΑΙΟΥ — (of) Jesse
- ἸΕΣΣΕΙΟΥ — of Jesse
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