שִׁישַׁק
Shishak
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Shishak’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7895 appears in the Book of 2 Chronicles — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 12:2 שִׁישַׁ֥ק n Proper It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,
- 2 Chronicles 12:5 שִׁישָׁ֑ק שִׁישָֽׁק n Proper n Proper Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
- 2 Chronicles 12:7 שִׁישָֽׁק n Proper When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
- 2 Chronicles 12:9 שִׁישַׁ֥ק n Proper So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, שישק (Shîyshaq) means “Shishak.” Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Chronicles (67% of all occurrences). With 6 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. First canonically at 1 Kings 11:40, it enters the text early. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7895 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 4 verses 67%
- 1 Kings 2 verses 33%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Shishak 7×
- American Standard Version†: Shishak 7×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Shishak 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Shishak 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7895 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7895 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7895 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7895 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Shishak = "greedy of fine linen"
- king of Egypt…
Word origin
I. n.pr.m. 1 K 14:25 Kt, Qr שִׁישַׁק q.v.
I. n.pr.m. king of Egypt, Solomon’s time (10th cent. b.c.), 1 K 11:40; 14:25 Qr (Kt שושק), = 2 Ch 12:2; 2 Ch 12:9, שִׁישָׁ֑ק v 5(×2), 7; = Šešonḳ I, first king of 22nd dynasty, BlauZMG xv (1861), 233 ff. SteindBAS i. 351; = Sošenḳ WMMAs. u. Eur. 166 ff.; Ency. Bib. Shishak; cf. GriffithHast.DB Shishak.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H7895 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁישַׁ֥ק | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 14:25 | 3 |
| שִׁישָֽׁק | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 12:5 | 2 |
| שִׁישַׁ֣ק | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 11:40 | 1 |
| שִׁישָׁ֑ק | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 12:5 | 1 |
| שושק | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 14:25 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shishak). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
king of Egypt, the Sheshonk I. of the monuments, first sovereign of the Bubastite twenty-second dynasty. His reign offers the first determined syncronism of Egyptian and hebrew history. The first year of Shishak would about correspond to the 26th of Solomon (B.C. 989), and the 20th of shishak to the 5th of Rehoboam. Shishak at the beginning of his reign received the fugitive Jeroboam, (1 Kings 11:40) and it was probably at the instigation of Jeroboam that he attacked Rehoboam. "He took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem." he exacted all the treasures of his city from Rehoboam, and apparently made him tributary. (1 Kings 14:25,26; 2 Chronicles 12:2-9) Shishak has left a record of this expedition sculptured on the wall of the great temple of El-Karnak. It is a list of the countries, cities and tribes conquered or ruled by him, or tributary to him.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
present of the bag; of the pot; of the thigh
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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