Bible Lexicons

שׁוּשַׁן m.

(1), the lily, prop. what is white, from the root שׁוּשׁ. מַעֲשֵׂה שׁוּשַׁן work or ornament resembling lilies, 1 Kings 7:19. (Arab. and Syr. سُوْسَنُ, سَوْسَن ܫܘܽܫܰܢܬܐܳ id.; comp. Diosc., iii. 106, al. 116; Athen. xii. 1. Compare Celsii Hierobot., i. p. 383, seq.)

(2) שׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת Psalms 60:1, an instrument of music, prop. so called from its resembling a lily. Various rings of trumpets and pipes are like the common lily, while the cymbal resembles the martagon lily, the name of which instrument has indeed been applied to this flower. Comp. שׁוּשַׁן No. 2. שׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת may be rendered pipes of song, as it were lyric, see עֵדוּת No. 3.

(3) [Shushan], pr.n. Susa, the chief city of Susiana (and of all Persia), in which the kings of Persia used to pass the winter, Daniel 8:2; Nehemiah 1:1; Esther 1:2. It was situated on the Eulæus, or Choaspes, where there is now the village of Shush (see Kinneir, Memoir, p. 99; Ker Porter, Travels, vol. ii. p. 411; compare Hoeck, Vet. Mediæ et Persiæ Monumm. p. 93); according to others at the village of Suster (see Josh. de Hammer in Opp. Soc. Geogr., Paris, vol. ii. p. 320-28; 333-41).

בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן בְּשׁוּשַׁ֨ן בְּשׁוּשָׁ֑ן בְּשׁוּשָׁ֔ן בְּשׁוּשָׁ֗ן בְּשׁוּשָׁ֤ן בְשׁוּשָׁ֔ן בשושן וּבְשׁוּשַׁ֣ן ובשושן שׁוּשַׁ֤ן שׁוּשַׁ֥ן שׁוּשָׁ֔ן שׁוּשָׁ֖ן שושן bə·šū·šan bə·šū·šān ḇə·šū·šān beshuShan bəšūšan bəšūšān ḇəšūšān shuShan šū·šan šū·šān šūšan šūšān ū·ḇə·šū·šan ūḇəšūšan uveshuShan veshuShan