Entry № 4664 · Hebrew origin

Iscah Iscah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ IS-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Sarah's sister"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "sarah's sister".

Iscah (יִסְכָּה) means "watchful" or "one who looks forth" in Hebrew. In Genesis 11:29, Iscah was the daughter of Haran (Abraham's brother) and sister of Lot and Milcah — Jewish tradition identifies her with Sarah herself.

Iscah is the etymological source of the English name Jessica (via Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice).

Watchful. Sarah's sister; the source of Jessica.

The name in its native script.

יִסְכָּה
Transliteration
Yiskāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪs.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iscah stands.

Iscah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Iscahs before her.

Real people
Iscah
Common in Jewish families.
In fiction
Iscah
Sarah's sister; source of Jessica.
Genesis 11:29

Names connected to Iscah.

The number behind Iscah.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iscah reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.