Sheshach

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sheshach
     (Jer. 25:26), supposed to be equivalent to Babel (Babylon),
     according to a secret (cabalistic) mode of writing among the
     Jews of unknown antiquity, which consisted in substituting the
     last letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the first, the last but
     one for the second, and so on. Thus the letters sh, sh, ch


     become b, b, l, i.e., Babel. This is supposed to be confirmed by
     a reference to Jer. 51:41, where Sheshach and Babylon are in
     parallel clauses. There seems to be no reason to doubt that
     Babylon is here intended by this name. (See Streane's Jeremiah,
     l.c.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Sheshach, bag of flax or linen