Sheshach

Sheshach

Sheshach - (Jer. 25:26), supposed to be equivalent to Babel (Babylon),according to a secret mode of writing among the
Jews of unknown antiquity, which consisted in substituting thelast letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the first, the last butone for the second, and so on. Thus the letters sh, sh, chbecome b, b, l, i.e., Babel (see: Atbash cipher). This is supposed to be confirmed bya reference to Jer. 51:41, where Sheshach and Babylon are inparallel clauses. There seems to be no reason to doubt thatBabylon is here intended by this name. (See Streane's "Jeremiah",l.c.)


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