Shashak

{{Short description|King ancestor and father}}

{{for|the village in Iran|Shashak, Iran}}

Shashak is an ancestor of King Saul and the father of Elam in the Books of Chronicles (Chronicles I 8:14). He, like Elpaal, Beriah, Shema, and Jeremoth, was the head of his family (or clan) and lived in post-exilic Jerusalem.{{Cite book |last1=Dawson |first1=Nancy S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxidEAAAQBAJ |title=All the Genealogies of the Bible: Visual Charts and Exegetical Commentary |last2=Merrill |first2=Eugene H. |last3=Kostenberger |first3=Andreas J. |date=2023-10-31 |publisher=Zondervan Academic |isbn=978-0-310-53659-8 |pages=232 |language=en}}