/ˈd͡ʒɛs.i/
OriginFrom Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).
- The son of Obed and the father of king David.
“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.”
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
“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 th”
- A female given name, variant of Jessie.
“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 scho”
- A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.
FormsJesses(plural)
Source: Wiktionary