Jesse

1. A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at Rut.4.17

• jesse 39
• and jesse 2
• of jesse 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 Samuel 24
• 1 Chronicles 5
• Ruth 2
• 2 Samuel 2
• 2 Chronicles 2
• Isaiah 2

8 books in all.

• Jesse (Iessai)

• Ruth 4:22And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
• 1 Samuel 16:1And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
• 1 Samuel 16:3And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
• 1 Samuel 16:5And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
• 1 Samuel 16:8Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
• 1 Samuel 16:9Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “jesse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.