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Iscah

19:20 Dec 3, 2004
English to Hebrew translations [Non-PRO]
Names (personal, company)
English term or phrase: Iscah
This is my name. I have encountered many different meanings and I wondered what it meant in Hebrew.
Iscah


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5 -1to see
Eynat


  

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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
iscah
to see


Explanation:
Originally meant 'to see, he sees'. The English equivalent is Jessica.

Eynat

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Akiva Brest (X): Yiskah is Jessica and is Sarah, Abraham's wife. Yiskah is from the root Sukah, to be enwrapped. It state in the bible commentary at the end of Noah in that all were enwrapped in Sarah's beauty.
8 hrs
  -> Well, I am afraid you are wrong: the root s-k-h (sukah is not a root but a noun) doesn't mean to be enwrapped but to be covered (as in 'sheltered'), hence the sukah of Sukkoth, skhakha, le-sokhekh etc.
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