See Jesse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1985, Alice Munro, The Progress of Love, Chatto&Windus, published 1987, →ISBN:",
"text": "We had decided to change the spelling of our names. Mine was to become Jesse instead of Jessie, and hers was to be Meribeth, not MaryBeth. We signed these names to the test papers we turned in at school.\nThe teacher waved my paper in the air. \"I can't give a mark to this person, because I don't know who this person is,\" she said. \"Who is this Jesse?\" She spelled the name out loud. \"That is a boy's name. Does anybody here know a boy named Jesse?\"",
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"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "biblical father of David",
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"sense": "biblical father of David",
"word": "耶西"
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "biblical father of David",
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