Hebrew n-m / n:n-m-t · H7799
שׁוּשַׁן
shushanshoo-shan'
lily
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shûwshan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7799is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7799
a lily (from its whiteness), as aflower of architectural ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)
The King James renders it: lily, Shoshannim.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shushan is rendered "lily". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 7:19And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
1 Kings 7:19שׁוּשַׁ֣ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's thirteen uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- among the lilies3
- lili3
- lilies2
- a lily1
- like a lily1
- like the lily1
- the lily of1
- with the lilies1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שׁוּר | shur | to see | Uses15 |
| שׁוּט | shut | to rove | Uses13 |
| שׁוּל | shul | hem | Uses11 |
| שׁוּעָל | shual | fox | Uses7 |
| שׁוּחָה | shuchah | pit | Uses5 |
| שׁוּחִי | Shuchi | Shuhite | Uses5 |
| שׁוּף | shuph | to bruise | Uses4 |
| שׁוּק | shuq | street | Uses4 |
| שׁוּר | shur | wall | Uses4 |
| שׁוּק | shuq | to overflow | Uses3 |
| שׁוּר | shur | to travel | Uses3 |
| שׁוּר | shur | wall | Uses3 |
and 8 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃3
- שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן2
- בַּשׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃ ס1
- כְּשֽׁוֹשַׁנָּה֙1
- כַּשּֽׁוֹשַׁנָּ֑ה1
- שׁוּשַׁ֣ן1
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנָּ֑ה1
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים1
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃1
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנַּ֖ת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural4HRd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
1 Kings
three uses
And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
- שׁוּשַׁ֣ןshushannoun · masculine singulartagged: lili
And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.
- שׁוֹשָׁ֑ןshoshannoun · masculine singulartagged: lili
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
- שׁוֹשָׁ֑ןshoshannoun · masculine singulartagged: lili
2 Chronicles
one use
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנָּ֑הshoshanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a lily
Song of Solomon
eight uses
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנַּ֖תshoshanatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the lily of
Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
- כְּשֽׁוֹשַׁנָּה֙keshoshanahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: like a lily
My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
- בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃bashoshanimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the lilies
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
- בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃bashoshanimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the lilies
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔יםshoshanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lilies
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.
- שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃shooshanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lilies
I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
- בַּשׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃ סbashoshanimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the lilies
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
- בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃bashoshanimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with the lilies
Hosea
one use
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
- כַּשּֽׁוֹשַׁנָּ֑הkashoshanahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: like the lily
The letters
Gematria 656· 1,306 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.