H7801

שׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵא

shu.shan.khiN:N--L

Susa

Susanchites, of Shushan "lily" the inhabitants of the city of Shushan or Susa Another spelling of shu.shan (שׁוּשַׁן "Susa" H7800)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

שׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵא proper name, of a people plural the Susians, people of Susa Ezra 4:9, see דהוא (DlPa 327; singular [שׁוּשַׁנָךְ] according to Scheft92, = Old Persian * šušana-ka, from Susa, so (as alternative) AndrM 85 *; compare (on Elamite god Šušinak) WeissbachAnzanische Inschr. 136 JenVOJ vi. 54 ZimKAT 3. 485, and (on Šušun‡a in Elamite inscription, apparently proper name, of a territory) see Weissbl.c. JenZMG iv (1901), 229).


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