Aramaic word · H7801

שׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵא

shushankhaye'

Susa

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

Susanchites, of Shushan "lily"

the inhabitants of the city of Shushan or Susa

Another spelling of shu.shan (שׁוּשַׁן "Susa" H7800)

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

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 4:9 שֽׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵ֔א Susanchites the

    From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,

    Here: 'The men of Susa', the old Elamite capital and later a Persian royal city. The -k- in the word is a Persian-style ending for 'people of a place'.

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