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Jesse
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Jessé
English
Etymology
From en grc Ἰεσσαί, from en he יִשַׁי Yishai.
Pronunciation
en /ˈd͡ʒɛs.i/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jesse.wav Southern England
en Jessie Jessi
Proper noun
s
en Q45090en biblical character The son of Obed and the father of king David.
: 1 Samuel 17:12:
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
en male Hebrew of biblical origin.
1882, Jesse James (folk song):
Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, / He robbed the Glendale train. / He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, / He'd a hand and a heart and a brain.
en Oliver Darcy Jesse Watters was invited to speak before a group of executives. His remarks led to an ‘epic meltdown’ w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/media/jesse-watters-insurance-executives-reliable-sources 2023-06-28 On a Friday morning in April, Fox News talk host Jesse Watters walked onstage to a room stuffed with hundreds of insurance executives and agents. Watters was the featured speaker at a breakfast for the Big “I” Legislative Conference, the signature annual event hosted by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, where he was invited to participate in an interview with the organization’s retiring president, Bob Rusbuldt. https://web.archive.org/web/20231024130928/https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/media/jesse-watters-insurance-executives-reliable-sources/ 24 October 2023
en female Jessie.
en 1985 w:Alice Munro The Progress of Love Chatto&Windus 1987 0701131616 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.The 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?"
Derived terms
en en give someone Jesse (to scold or beat) Jessean Jesse window
Related terms
en Jess, en Jessie
Translations
biblical father of David
Albanian: sq Jése m, sq Jéseu m
Catalan: ca Jessè m
Cherokee: chr ᏤᏏ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 耶西 je4 sai1
Hakka: hak 耶西 Yâ-sî
Mandarin: cmn 耶西 Yēxī, Yéxī
Danish: da Isaj
Finnish: fi Iisai
French: fr Isaï, fr Jessé m
German: de Isai, de Jesse m
Hebrew: he יִשַׁי yishái
Hindi: hi यिशै m
Italian: it Isai, it Iesse m
Latin: la Iesse
Malayalam: ml ജെസ്സെ
Norwegian: no Isai
Polish: pl Jesse m
Portuguese: pt Jessé m
Russian: ru Иессе́й m
Serbo-Croatian: sh Jišaj m
Spanish: es Isaí (Catholic versions), es Jesé (Reina-Valera version)
Swedish: sv Isai, sv Jishaj, sv Isaj, sv Jesse
male given name
Albanian: sq Jése m, sq Jéseu m
Finnish: fi Jesse
Marathi: mr जेसी m
Polish: pl Jesse m
Portuguese: pt Jessé m
Noun
en architecture A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.
References
en diminutives of female given names eponyms unisex given names
Dutch
Etymology
From nl grc Ἰεσσαί, from nl he יִשַׁי Yishai.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈjɛsə/
Proper noun
m
nl male
Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
The Vulgate fi la - name la Iesse, la Jesse was known in medieval Finland, but the modern revival of the name is much due to fi en Jesse.
Proper noun
fi male, popular since the 1980s
Declension
Jess ä
Related terms
fi Iisai
Statistics
dvv_20250813 11121 1304 62 12 6
Etymology 2
Slang form of fi Jeesus.
Proper noun
fi slang
fi Jeesus Jesus
Declension
Jess ä
References