 Sheshach

Sheshach (), whose king is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in , is supposed to be equivalent to Babel (Babylon), according to a secret mode of writing practiced among the Jews of unknown antiquity, which consisted in substituting the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the first, the next to last one for the second, and so on.Thus the letters sh, sh, ch become b, b, l, i.e., Babel (see