noun · masculine
iessai
Strong’sG2421
Jesse
stem iessai-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Ἰεσσαί (FlJ, -σσαῖος), ὁ (Heb. יִשַׁי, Ru 4:17, al.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2421 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saides-es-sah'-ee
Jessæ (i.e. Jishai), an Israelite
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesJesse.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Jesse:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | iessai1×Ἰεσσαὶ | iessai |
| object accusative | iessai1×Ἰεσσαί | iessai |
| direct address vocative | iessai | iessai |
| of, belonging to genitive | iessai3×Ἰεσσαί | iessai |
| to, for dative | iessai | iessai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
iessai“Jesse”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 1:6Iessai de gennata ton David ton basilevon. …and Jesse the father of David the king …
iessai“Jesse”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 1:5… tau Routh, Iōbēd de gennata ton Iessai,… by Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,
iessai“Jesse”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Luke 3:32tou Iessai tou Iōbēl tou Boos tou Sala …the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son …
Acts 13:22… legata marturarantos; Heuriskama David ton tou Iessai, andron kata tan kardian mu, hos …… I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart …
Romans 15:12… Ēsaios legatō; Eti tas rizas tou Iessai, kai tos anastēorōntos archarō ethneiu; epi …… more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise …