H8340: שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּר
Shêshᵉbatstsar · pronounced shaysh-bats-tsar' · “Sheshbazzar”
Definition
{Sheshbatstsar, Zerubbabel's Persian name}
KJV translates it as: Sheshbazzar.
Word origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to H8339 (שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּר)
Extended definition
son of: Pedaiah (H6305H);
brother of: Shimei (H8096J);
father of: Meshullam (H4918H), Hananiah (H2608L), Shelomith (H8019I), Hashubah (H2807), Ohel (H0169), Berechiah (H1296), Hasadiah (H2619), Jushab-hesed (H3142) and Abiud (G0010); also called Sheshbazzar at Ezr.1.8,11; 5.14,16; KJV: Zorobabel at Mat.1.12,13;
Aramaic of ze.rub.ba.vel (זְרֻבָּבֶ֫ל "Zerubbabel" H2216)
§ Sheshbazzar = "worshipper of fire"
the prince of Judah at the first return from exile in Babylon; usually identified as the Babylonian name for Zerubbabel
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8340 is translated
- sheshbazzar ×2
Bible verses with H8340 (Shêshᵉbatstsar)
Shêshᵉbatstsar appears in 2 verses.
- Ezra 5:14
And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
- Ezra 5:16
Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.