Hebrew word · H5477

סוּחַ

suach

Suah

A man's name found only here. BDB connects it tentatively with a root meaning 'sweep away', related to sûḥāh, 'refuse, offal' (Isaiah 5:25). Other explanations are possible.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Asher living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.36;

son of: Zophah (H6690);

brother of: Harnepher (H2774), Shual (H7777B), Beri (H1275), Imrah (H3236), Bezer (H1221H), Hod (H1936), Shamma (H8037H), Shilshah (H8030), Ithran (H3506H) and Beera (H0878)

§ Suah = "sweeping"

an Asherite, son of Zophah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 7:36

Range of meaning

A man's name found only here. BDB connects it tentatively with a root meaning 'sweep away', related to sûḥāh, 'refuse, offal' (Isaiah 5:25). Other explanations are possible.

Against the English

Simply transliterated. Any meaning attached to it is a guess.

Used elsewhere in the period

Not attested outside this verse as a personal name.

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:36 ס֧וּחַ Suah

    The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,

    Here: Listed first among Zophah's sons. Older lexicons connect the name with a root meaning 'sweep away' (compare 'refuse' in Isaiah 5:25), but the link is uncertain.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.