ישי

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Hebrew

Etymology

At least two hypotheses exist, none are explicitly mentioned in the Bible:

From י (yi, “one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”) +‎ שַׁי (sháy, “gift, present”), thus "God's gift".
From יֵשׁ (yésh, “there is, there exist(s)”) +‎ י (“one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton – a theonym for God”), thus "God exists".

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Proper noun

יִשַׁי • (yishái) m

(biblical) Jesse (the son of Obed and the father of king David)
a male given name, Ishai, Yishai, or Yishay, equivalent to English Jesse

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