Lexical Definition

‎שׁוּשַׁנְכִי‎ Shûwshankîy (shoo-shan-kee') Susa ^N:N--L
(Aramaic) of foreign origin

Susanchites.

• § Susanchites = see Shushan "lily"
• a Shushankite (collectively) or inhabitants of some unknown place in Assyrian

1) the inhabitants of the city of Shushan or Susa

Extended Information

spelling of: שׁוּשַׁן

• Susanchites, of Shushan "lily"
• Another spelling of shu.shan (‎ש‎ׁ‎ו‎ּ‎ש‎ַׁ‎ן‎ "Susa" שׁוּשַׁן)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵא‎ proper name, of a people plural the Susians, people of Susa Ezra 4:9, see ‎דהוא‎ (Dl^{Pa 327}; singular [‎שׁוּשַׁנָךְ‎] according to Scheft⁹², = Old Persian * šušana-ka, from Susa, so (as alternative) Andr^{M 85} *; compare (on Elamite god Šušinak) Weissbach^{Anzanische Inschr. 136} Jen^{VOJ vi. 54} Zim^{KAT 3. 485, and} (on Šušun‡a in Elamite inscription, apparently proper name, of a territory) see Weissb^l.c. Jen^{ZMG iv (1901), 229}).

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