ἸΕΣΣΑΙ, ἰεσσαι
IESSAI, iessai
Sounds Like: ee-ESS-sahee
Translations: Jesse
From the root: ἸΕΣΣΑΙ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is a proper noun referring to Jesse, the father of King David in the Old Testament. It is used to identify this specific individual in genealogical accounts.
Inflection: Does not inflect
Strong’s number: G2421 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 18:1
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 46:17
- Ruth — 4:17, 4:22
- 1 Samuel — 16:1, 16:3, 16:5, 16:8, 16:9, 16:10, 16:11, 16:18, 16:19, 16:20, 16:22, 20:27, 20:30, 20:31, 22:7, 22:8, 22:9, 22:13, 25:10
- 2 Samuel — 20:1, 23:1
- 1 Kings — 12:16, 12:24
- 1 Chronicles — 2:12, 2:13, 10:14, 12:18, 29:26
- 2 Chronicles — 10:16, 11:18
- Psalms — 71:20
- Isaiah — 11:1, 11:10
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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.
- ἸΕΣΣΑΙΜΟΥ — (of) Jesse, (of) the house of Jesse, (of) the family of Jesse
- ἸΕΣΣΑΙΟΝ — Jesse
- ἸΕΣΣΑΙΟΥ — (of) Jesse
- ἸΕΣΣΕΙΟΥ — of Jesse
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