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Strong's #7799 - שׁוֹשַׁנָּה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- lily
- probably any lily-like flower
- Shoshannim, in title of Ps 45:1
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1481) ss (סהסה ShSh) AC: ? CO: White AB: ?: The pictograph s is a picture of the two front teeth. The whiteness of the teeth. The white hair of the older men. (eng: six - with the exchange of the x and sh, ses is Spanish)
A) ss (סהסה ShSh) AC: ? CO: Linen AB: ?
Nm/f ) ss (סהסה ShSh) - I. Linen:As white. [df: yss]II. Marble:As white. III. Six:[Unknown connection to rootAlso meaning sixty when written in the plual form - missor nitsin Aramaic] KJV (322): linen, six, sixth, sixty, threescore - Strongs: H8336 (שְׁשִׁי), H8337 (שִׁשָּׁה), H8346 (שִׁשִּׁים), H8353 (שִׁת), H8361 (שִׁתִּין)
fm/f ) iss (סהסהי ShShY) - Sixth: KJV (28): sixth - Strongs: H8345 (שִׁשִּׁי)
jm) nfss (סהסהונ ShShWN) - Joy: As bright with cheer. [df: NwVV] KJV (22): joy, gladness, mirth, rejoicing - Strongs: H8342 (שָׂשׂן)
E) ass (סהסהא ShShA) AC: ? CO: Sixth AB: ?
V) ass (סהסהא ShShA) - Sixth: To give a sixth. KJV (1): (vf: Piel) sixth - Strongs: H8338 (שָׁשָׁא)
H) ess (סהסהה ShShH) AC: ? CO: Sixth AB: ?
V) ess (סהסהה ShShH) - Sixth: To give a sixth. KJV (1): (vf: Piel) sixth - Strongs: H8341 (שָׁשָׁה)
J) sfs (סהוסה ShWSh) AC: ? CO: White AB: ?
mm ) nsfs (סהוסהנ ShWShN) - Lilly: A white flower. KJV (15): lily - Strongs: H7799 (שׁוֹשַׁנָּה)
L) ssi (יסהסה YShSh) AC: ? CO: Old AB: ?: The white hair of the older men.
Nm) ssi (יסהסה YShSh) - Old: KJV (1): age - Strongs: H3486 (יָשֵׁשׁ)
bm) sisi (יסהיסה YShYSh) - Old: KJV (4): ancient, aged, old - Strongs: H3453 (יָשִׁישׁ)
M) sis (סהיסה ShYSh) AC: ? CO: Marble AB: ?: A white stone.
Nm) sis (סהיסה ShYSh) - Marble: KJV (1): marble - Strongs: H7893 (שַׁיִשׁ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
noun feminine usually lily, probably any lily-like flower (Tristr NHB 462ff. Post Hast. DB LILY Löw No. 323; Late Hebrew שׁוֺשַׁנָּה, Arabic 
(Vulgar 
), especially iris, Aramaic שׁוּשַׁנְתָּא, 
(PS4344), Greek σοῦσον Lewy Fremdw. 48; original loan-word from Egyptian sššn, šôš§n, Erman ZMG xlvi (1892), 117); — lily: in simile, יִפְרַח כַּשּׁוֺשַׁנָּה Hosea 14:7 (of Israel), בֵּין הַחוֺחִים׳כְּשׁוֺ Song of Solomon 2:2 (simile of bride), so construct שׁוֺשַׁנַּת הָעֲמָקִים Song of Solomon 2:1 (compare חֲבַצֶּלֶת); plural שׁוֺשַׁנִּים Song of Solomon 2:16; Song of Solomon 4:5; Song of Solomon 6:2,3; Song of Solomon 7:3 and (figurative of lover's lips) Song of Solomon 5:13; of flower-shaped capitals of pillars, מַעֲשֵׂה שׁוּשַׁן 1 Kings 7:19, שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן׳מ 1 Kings 7:22; compare מֶּרַח שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן of brim of molten sea 1 Kings 7:26, "" שׁוֺשַׁנָה׳פ 2 Chronicles 4:5; elsewhere only Psalm -titles: עַשֹֿׁשַׁנִּים Psalm 45:1; Psalm 69:1, עַלשֿׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת Psalm 60:1, אֶלשֿׁשַׁגִּםעֵדוּת Psalm 80:1; meaning not clear, see Bae and Commentaries al.; yet compare עֵדוּת, below עוד.
שׁוֹשַׁנָּה f. a lily, 2 Chronicles 4:5; Hosea 14:6; Song of Solomon 2:1,.
