Strong's H8347 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: שֵׁשַׁךְ (Shêshak)

Pronunciation: shay-shak'

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Name Meaning: Sheshach = "thy fine linen"

Derivation: of foreign derivation;

Definition: Sheshak, a symbolic name of Babylon

KJV Renderings: Sheshach.

Senses

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

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.