Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H7800
שׁוּשַׁן
Shushanshoo-shan'
Susa
21 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 H7800is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7800
Shushan, a place in Persia
The King James renders it: Shushan.
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 "Susa". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Nehemiah 1:1These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
Nehemiah 1:1בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in Susa16
- Susa4
- and in Susa1
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 |
| שׁוּשַׁן | shushan | lily | 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 |
and 9 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 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן4
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן4
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֗ן3
- בְשׁוּשָׁ֔ן1
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֨ן1
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֤ן1
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֔ן1
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֑ן1
- וּבְשׁוּשַׁ֣ן1
- שׁוּשַׁ֤ן1
- שׁוּשַׁ֥ן1
- שׁוּשָׁ֖ן1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + proper noun (a name)16HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name)4HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
Nehemiah
one use
These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
Esther
nineteen uses
In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֨ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
- שׁוּשַׁ֤ןshushanproper noun (a name)tagged: Susa
Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
- שׁוּשַׁ֥ןshushanproper noun (a name)tagged: Susa
The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
- שׁוּשָׁ֖ןshushanproper noun (a name)tagged: Susa
Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֤ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֗ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
- שׁוּשָׁ֔ןshushanproper noun (a name)tagged: Susa
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
- וּבְשׁוּשַׁ֣ןuveshushanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and in Susa
On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֔ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֑ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֗ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
- בְשׁוּשָׁ֔ןveshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
- בְּשׁוּשָׁ֗ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
Daniel
one use
And in the vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa, in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal.
- בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ןbeshushanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Susa
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.