Bible Names

Sheshach: meaning of the name

Sheshach means “bag of flax or linen.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Sheshach in Hebrew and Greek

שֵׁשַׁךְ H8347

Shêshak (shay-shak') — Sheshak, a symbolic name of Babylon

of foreign derivation;

Places named Sheshach

Sheshach in Scripture

“Sheshach” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Jeremiah 25:26

    And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

  • Jeremiah 51:41

    How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!