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FromAncient GreekἸεσσαί(Iessaí), fromHebrewיִשַׁי(Yishai).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛs.i/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Homophones:Jessie,Jessi

Jesse (pluralJesses)

2. (biblical) The son ofObed and the father of kingDavid.
   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC:
     :1 Samuel 17:12:

     Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name wasJesse; and he had eight sons; and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

3. A malegiven name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
   • 1882,Jesse James (folk song):

     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.

   • 2023 June 28, Oliver Darcy, “Jesse Watters was invited to speak before a group of executives. His remarks led to an ‘epic meltdown’”, inCNN‎^[1]:

     On a Friday morning in April, Fox News talk hostJesse Watters walked onstage to a room stuffed with hundreds of insurance executives and agents. Watters was the featured speaker at a breakfast for the Big “I” Legislative Conference, the signature annual event hosted by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, where he was invited to participate in an interview with the organization’s retiring president, Bob Rusbuldt.

4. A femalegiven name, variant ofJessie.
   • 1985,Alice Munro,The Progress of Love, Chatto&Windus, published1987,→ISBN:

     We had decided to change the spelling of our names. Mine was to becomeJesse instead of Jessie, and hers was to be Meribeth, not MaryBeth. We signed these names to the test papers we turned in at school.
     The teacher waved my paper in the air. "I can't give a mark to this person, because I don't know who this person is," she said. "Who is thisJesse?" She spelled the name out loud. "That is a boy's name. Does anybody here know a boy namedJesse?"

• Jess,Jessie
• give someone Jesse (to scold or beat)
• Jesse window

Jesse (pluralJesses)

1. (architecture) Arepresentation of thegenealogy ofChrist, indecorativeart, such as agenealogicaltree instained glass or abranchedcandlestick.

• “Jesse”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

FromAncient GreekἸεσσαί(Iessaí), fromHebrewיִשַׁי(Yishai).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛsə/

Jesse m

1. a malegiven name

• IPA^(key): /ˈjesːe/,[ˈje̞s̠ːe̞]
• Rhymes:-esːe
• Syllabification^(key):Jes‧se
• Hyphenation^(key):Jes‧se

The VulgateLatin nameIesse,Jesse was known in medieval Finland, but the modern revival of the name is much due toEnglishJesse.

Jesse

1. a malegiven name, popular since the 1980s

• Iisai

• Jesse is the 62^nd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 11,121 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,304 more), and also belongs to 12 female individuals (and as a middle name to 6 more), according toAugust 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

FinnishJeesus.

Jesse(slang)

1. Jesus.

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