See ישי on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God"
},
"expansion": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God",
"name": "n-g"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "י",
"3": "שַׁי",
"gloss2": "gift, present",
"t1": "<span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\">one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God</span>",
"tr1": "yi",
"tr2": "sháy"
},
"expansion": "י (yi, “one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”) + שַׁי (sháy, “gift, present”)",
"name": "affix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God"
},
"expansion": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God",
"name": "n-g"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "יֵשׁ",
"3": "י",
"t1": "there is, there exist(s)",
"t2": "<span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\">one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God</span>",
"tr1": "yésh"
},
"expansion": "יֵשׁ (yésh, “there is, there exist(s)”) + י (“one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”)",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "At least two hypotheses exist, none are explicitly mentioned in the Bible:\n* From י (yi, “one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”) + שַׁי (sháy, “gift, present”), thus \"God's gift\".\n* From יֵשׁ (yésh, “there is, there exist(s)”) + י (“one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”), thus \"God exists\".",
"forms": [
{
"form": "יִשַׁי",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "yishái",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"tr": "yishái",
"wv": "יִשַׁי"
},
"expansion": "יִשַׁי • (yishái) m",
"name": "he-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "he",
"name": "Biblical characters",
"orig": "he:Biblical characters",
"parents": [
"Bible",
"Books",
"Christianity",
"Judaism",
"Literature",
"Mass media",
"Abrahamism",
"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Media",
"Religion",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Jesse (the son of Obed and the father of king David)"
],
"id": "en-ישי-he-name-~v48TpcF",
"links": [
[
"biblical",
"Bible"
],
[
"Jesse",
"Jesse#English:_Q45090"
],
[
"Obed",
"Obed"
],
[
"David",
"David"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(biblical) Jesse (the son of Obed and the father of king David)"
],
"topics": [
"biblical",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "Hebrew given names",
"parents": [
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "Hebrew male given names",
"parents": [
"Male given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "32 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 72",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a male given name, Ishai, Yishai, or Yishay, equivalent to English Jesse"
],
"id": "en-ישי-he-name-eWGK5cF3",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
],
[
"Ishai",
"Ishai#English"
],
[
"Yishai",
"Yishai#English"
],
[
"Yishay",
"Yishay#English"
],
[
"Jesse",
"Jesse#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q9288 (heb)-YaronSh-ישי.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "ישי"
}
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
"Hebrew lemmas",
"Hebrew masculine nouns",
"Hebrew palindromes",
"Hebrew proper nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God"
},
"expansion": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God",
"name": "n-g"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "י",
"3": "שַׁי",
"gloss2": "gift, present",
"t1": "<span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\">one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God</span>",
"tr1": "yi",
"tr2": "sháy"
},
"expansion": "י (yi, “one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”) + שַׁי (sháy, “gift, present”)",
"name": "affix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God"
},
"expansion": "one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God",
"name": "n-g"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "יֵשׁ",
"3": "י",
"t1": "there is, there exist(s)",
"t2": "<span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\">one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God</span>",
"tr1": "yésh"
},
"expansion": "יֵשׁ (yésh, “there is, there exist(s)”) + י (“one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”)",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "At least two hypotheses exist, none are explicitly mentioned in the Bible:\n* From י (yi, “one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”) + שַׁי (sháy, “gift, present”), thus \"God's gift\".\n* From יֵשׁ (yésh, “there is, there exist(s)”) + י (“one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”), thus \"God exists\".",
"forms": [
{
"form": "יִשַׁי",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "yishái",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"tr": "yishái",
"wv": "יִשַׁי"
},
"expansion": "יִשַׁי • (yishái) m",
"name": "he-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"he:Biblical characters"
],
"glosses": [
"Jesse (the son of Obed and the father of king David)"
],
"links": [
[
"biblical",
"Bible"
],
[
"Jesse",
"Jesse#English:_Q45090"
],
[
"Obed",
"Obed"
],
[
"David",
"David"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(biblical) Jesse (the son of Obed and the father of king David)"
],
"topics": [
"biblical",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew given names",
"Hebrew male given names"
],
"glosses": [
"a male given name, Ishai, Yishai, or Yishay, equivalent to English Jesse"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
],
[
"Ishai",
"Ishai#English"
],
[
"Yishai",
"Yishai#English"
],
[
"Yishay",
"Yishay#English"
],
[
"Jesse",
"Jesse#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q9288 (heb)-YaronSh-ישי.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav/LL-Q9288_%28heb%29-YaronSh-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "ישי"
}
Download raw JSONL data for ישי meaning in All languages combined (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.