Lexical Definition

‎שׁוּשַׁן‎ shûwshan (shoo-shan') lily ^{H:N-M / N:N-M-T}
or שׁוֹשָׁן shôwshân (shoshawn'); or שֹׁשָׁן shôshân (sho-shawn'); and (feminine) שׁוֹשַׁנָּה shôwshannâh (sho-shan-naw'); from ‎שׂוּשׂ‎

lily, Shoshannim.

• a lily (from its whiteness), as aflower of architectural ornament
• also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)

1) lily
1a) probably any lily-like flower
1b) Shoshannim, in title of Ps 45:1

See Greek: κρίνον · Σουσάννα

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎שׁוּשַׁן‎, ‎שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן‎ noun masculine ‎שׁוֺשַׁנָּה‎ noun feminine usually lily, probably any lily-like flower (Tristr^{NHB 462 ff.} 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 Hos 14:7* (of Israel), ‎בֵּין הַחוֺחִים‎ ‎׳‎‎כְּשׁוֺ‎ Song 2:2 (simile of bride), so construct ‎שׁוֺשַׁנַּת הָעֲמָקִים‎ vSong 2:1 (compare ‎חֲבַצֶּלֶת‎); plural ‎שׁוֺשַׁנִּים‎ Song 2:16; Song 4:5; Song 6:2; Song 6:3; Song 7:3* and (figurative of lover's lips) Song 5:13 of flower-shaped capitals of pillars, ‎מַעֲשֵׂה שׁוּשַׁן‎ 1Kgs 7:19, ‎שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ v1Kgs 7:22 compare ‎פֶּרַח שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן‎ of brim of molten sea v1Kgs 7:26, || ‎שׁוֺשַׁנָה‎ ‎׳‎‎פ‎ 2Chr 4:5 elsewhere only Psalm-titles: ‎עַשֹֿׁשַׁנִּים‎ Ps 45:1*; Ps 69:1*, ‎עַלשֿׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת‎ Ps 60:1*, ‎אֶלשֿׁשַׁגִּם‎ ‎עֵדוּת‎ Ps 80:1* meaning not clear, see Bae and Commentaries al.; yet compare ‎עֵדוּת‎, below ‎עוד‎.

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