Bible Names

Sheshai: meaning of the name

Sheshai means “six; mercy; flax.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Sheshai in Hebrew and Greek

שֵׁשַׁי H8344

Shêshay (shay-shah'-ee) — Sheshai, a Canaanite

probably for H8343 (שָׁשַׁי);

Who named Sheshai in the Bible

Sheshai in Scripture

“Sheshai” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 13:22

    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Joshua 15:14

    And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

  • Judges 1:10

    And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.