Given name · Hebrew
ישי
“gift, present”
ישי (yishái) is a masculine given name. It is used in Hebrew.
HebrewWritten in Hebrew script, read right to left. In English: alfabe çevirisi gerekiyor.
Meaning & origin
What it means
ישי is built from elements meaning “one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God” and “gift, present”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Hebrew י (yi, “one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”) + שַׁי (sháy, “gift, present”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
ישי’s family of names
In Hebrew usage, ישי has a transliteration in alfabe çevirisi gerekiyor.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named ישי
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