Lexical Definition

‎יִשְׁוִי‎ Yishvîy (yish-vee') Ishvite ^N:N--PG
patronymically from ‎יִשְׁוִי‎

Jesuites.

• § Jesuites = see Jesui "he will justify me"
• a Jishvite (collectively) or descendants of Jishvi

1) the descendants of Jesui (יִשְׁוִי-2)

Extended Information

group of: יִשְׁוִי

• Someone descended from Ishvi who was a man of the tribe of Asher living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.17
• son of: Asher (אָשֵׁר)
• brother of: Imnah (יִמְנָה), Ishvah (יִשְׁוָה), Beriah (בְּרִיעָה) and Serah (שֶׂרַח)
• Group of yish.vi (‎י‎ִ‎ש‎ְׁ‎ו‎ִ‎י‎ "Ishvi" יִשְׁוִי)
• the descendants of Jesui ( yish.vi (‎י‎ִ‎ש‎ְׁ‎ו‎ִ‎י‎ "Ishvi" יִשְׁוִי)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎יִשְׁוִי‎ adjective, of a people of foregoing 1; with article as collective noun ‎׳‎‎הַיִּ‎, Num 26:44.

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