Midvash

שֵׁשַׁךְShêshak

proper name [of a territory]: = בָּבֶל (Jeremiah 51:41; Jeremiah 25:26)

Pronunciation: shay-shak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8347

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Jeremiah 25:26 And I gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the other—all the kingdoms of the world. And finally, the king of Babylon himself drank from the cup of the Lord’s anger.
  • Jeremiah 51:41 “How Babylon is fallen— great Babylon, praised throughout the earth! Now she has become an object of horror among the nations.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).