Person

Jesse

Yishay

יִשַׁי

Gift; or Yahweh exists.

Jesse of Bethlehem is David’s father. Isaiah speaks of a shoot from the stump of Jesse.

View Line of Christ

Matthew and Luke both frame a genealogy around Joseph, yet the names differ after David (Solomon in Matthew, Nathan in Luke). Scripture does not explain the difference. Common theories: (1) Matthew gives the legal/royal line and Luke another kinship line (blood, adoption, or levirate), both tied to Joseph; (2) one list is Joseph’s and Luke’s is Mary’s, with Joseph named because Yahshua was “as was supposed” his son (Luke 3:23)—a reading Luke never states outright; (3) both are Joseph’s by different reckonings (for example legal father and biological father). The chains below follow each Gospel as written.

Line of Christ (Matthew)

From Adam to Yahshua. Genesis carries the line to Abraham; Matthew’s genealogy carries it from Abraham to Yahshua through David and Solomon, ending at Joseph the husband of Mary.

Line of Christ (Luke)

Luke 3:23–38 as written: from Yahshua, “the son (as was supposed) of Joseph,” back through Heli and Nathan son of David to Adam. The names after David differ from Matthew.

Strong’s

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יִשַׁי H3448

Yishay · yee-shah'-ee

Jishai, David's father

by Aramaic אִישַׁי; from the same as H3426 (יֵשׁ); extant;

KJV glosses: Jesse.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

יִשַׁי H3448

Biblical Hebrew

יִשַׁי41 proper name, masculine father of David (etymology dubious; Ol§ 277 f. conjecture יֵשׁ יָהּ; We1Sam 14:49 ישׁי = אישׁי = אבישׁי (but see this)) — יִשַׁי 1Sam 16:3 + 29 t.; יִשָׁ֑י v1Sam 16:19 + 10 t.; ᵐ5 Ιεσσαι; (וְ)אִישַׁי 1Chr 2:13 — יִשַׁי בֵּיתֿ הַלַּחְמִי jesse the Bethlehemite 1Sam 16:1; 1Sam 16:18 (׳בֶּןיֿשׁי וגו, of David), 1Sam 17:58 ; ישׁי also 1Sam 16:3 + 14 t. 1Sam 16:17 son of עוֺבֵד according to Ruth 4:17; Ruth 4:22 (twice in verse) = 1Chr 2:12 דָּוִ(י)ד בֶּןיֿשׁי 2Sam 23:1; 1Chr 10:14; 1Chr 29:26; Ps 72:20 אֱלִיאָב בֶּןיֿשׁי 2Chr 11:18 elsewhere בֶּןיֿשׁי alone = David, 1Sam 20:27; 1Sam 20:30; 1Sam 20:31; 1Sam 22:7; 1Sam 22:8; 1Sam 22:9; 1Sam 22:13; 1Sam 25:10; 2Sam 20:1 1 Ki 12:16> = 2Chr 10:16; 1Chr 12:18 גֶּזַע יִשָׁ֑י Isa 11:1 שֹׁרֶשׁ יְשֵׁי vIsa 11:10 of Jesse as ancestor of future (Messianic) king.