שׁוּשַׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7800

Shushan — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Shushan tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּשַׁן²: n.pr.loc. Susa tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.loc. Susa, winter residence of Persian kings; Σουσαν, ἐν Σουσοις (cuneif. Šûšan DlPa 326 COT Ne 1:1 Billerbeck Susa Say Hast. DB Shushan);—שׁ׳ הַבִּירָה Ne 1:1 (9th month, כִּסְלֵו), Dn 8:2 (in Elam), Est 1:2, 5; 2:3, 5, 8; 3:15a; 8:14; 9:6, 11, 12 (12th month, אֲדָר, v 1); הַבּ׳ om., שׁוּשָׁ֑ן Est 4:8, 16 and (month אֲדָר) 9:13, 14, 15(×2), 18; הָעִיר שׁ׳ 3:15b; 8:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Susa (20); of Susa (1).

In the verses

Esther 9:6 · tree →

וּבְשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֗ה הָרְג֤וּ הַיְּהוּדִים֙ וְאַבֵּ֔ד חֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת אִֽישׁ׃

Word for word: and in Susa the citadel they.killed the Jews and they.destroyed five hundred(s) man

JPS 1917: And in Shushan the castle the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

Esther 9:11 · tree →

בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא בָּ֣א מִסְפַּ֧ר הַֽהֲרוּגִ֛ים בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

Word for word: on the day (the) that it.came the.number of.[those] killed in Susa the citadel before the king

JPS 1917: On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the castle was brought before the king.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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