Meaning of Jesse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The son of Obed and the father of king David.
2. A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.
3. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
4. A female given name, variant of Jessie.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?"”

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