Bible Names

Irshemesh: meaning of the name

Irshemesh means “a city of bondage.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Irshemesh in Hebrew and Greek

עִיר שֶׁמֶשׁ H5905

ʻÎyr Shemesh (eer sheh'-mesh) — Ir-Shemesh, a place in Palestine

from H5892 (עִיר) and H8121 (שֶׁמֶשׁ); city of the sun;