שׁוּשַׁן
shûwshan · H7799 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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lily
A flowering plant with an erect stem and long narrow leaves; it can grow to 1.5 m high; it has a bulbous root and cone-shaped flowers, usually with 5-6 petals, which protrude straight out or slightly downward from the stem; Lilium candidum; associated with unsurpassed beauty
Examples1 Kings 7:19 The capitals which were on the tops of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
1 Kings 7:22 On the top of the pillars was the lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished.
1 Kings 7:26 And it was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths.
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lilies, shoshannim
Literally: lilies; hence, possibly: a song to the tune of which one or more of the psalms were played or sung
ExamplesPsalm 45:1 For the music director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
Psalm 69:1 For the music director; according to Shoshannim. {A Psalm} of David.
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the lily of the testimony, shushan edut
Literally: lily of testimony; hence, possibly: a song to the tune of which one or more of the psalms were played or sung
ExamplesPsalm 60:1 For the music director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
Psalm 80:1 For the music director; {set to} El Shoshannim; Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עֵדוּתtestimony, decree 1
- עֵמֶקvalley 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַטto gather 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֲנִיI 1
- שָׂפָהlip 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
10 occurrences in 4 groups
- בin/on/with 8
- עַלon, upon, over, against 3
- כlike/as 3
- אֵלto, toward 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- מַעֲשֶׂהwork, deed 2
- פֶּרַחblossom, flower 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- κρίνον krínon · G2918 · wild flower
- Greek κρίνον (krínon, G2918) serves as the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew שׁוּשַׁן (shûwshan, H7799) in NT citations referring to lilies, maintaining the same botanical referent across both testaments.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Plants001002007001
- The word names the lily flower, whose form decorated the temple's architecture, as in 1 Kings 7:19's "capitals... were of lily design" and 1 Kings 7:26's basin rim "made like... a lily blossom."
- Sing002004001009006
- The same word, "Shoshannim," names a tune or musical setting in several psalm superscriptions; this entry's own sampled citation, Psalm 45:1, gives the psalm's body rather than its superscription line "according to Shoshannim," where the musical sense actually falls — likely the same kind of superscription-driven verse offset already documented for other psalm-title terms in this project.
- Names of Locations003001010
- שׁוּשַׁן (shûwshan, H7799) predominantly denotes the flower "lily," as in occurrences glossed "of a lily"/"[the] lily," and in the musical-term usage "Shoshannim." This botanical sense does not independently attest the "Names of Locations" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with שׁוּשַׁן (Shûwshan, H7800) and שׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת (Shûwshan ʻÊdûwth, H7802) in the source data and is not confirmed by the dominant sense of this lexeme's own occurrences.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7799. shushan or shoshan or shoshannah I. שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן שׁוּשַׁן, noun masculine שׁוֺשַׁנָּה…
or shoshan or shoshannah I. שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן שׁוּשַׁן, noun masculine שׁוֺשַׁנָּה
noun feminine usually lily, probably any lily-like flower (TristrNHB 462 ff. PostHast. DB LILY LöwNo. 323; Late Hebrew שׁוֺשַׁנָּה, Arabic (Vulgar ), especially iris, Aramaic שׁוּשַׁנְתָּא, (PS4344), Greek σοῦσον LewyFremdw. 48; original loan-word from Egyptian sššn, šôš§n, ErmanZMG xlvi (1892), 117); — lily: in simile, כַּשּׁוֺשַׁנָּה יִפְרַח Hos 14:7 (of Israel), ׳כְּשׁוֺ הַחוֺחִים בֵּין Son 2:2 (simile of bride), so construct הָעֲמָקִים שׁוֺשַׁנַּת Son 2:1 (compare חֲבַצֶּלֶת); plural שׁוֺשַׁנִּים Son 2:16; Son 4:5; Son 6:2-3, Son 7:3 and (figurative of lover's lips) Son 5:13; of flower-shaped capitals of pillars, שׁוּשַׁן מַעֲשֵׂה 1Ki 7:19, ׳מ שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן 1Ki 7:22; compare שׁוֺשָׁ֑ן מֶּרַח of brim of molten sea 1Ki 7:26, || ׳פ שׁוֺשַׁנָה2Ch 4:5; elsewhere only Psalm-titles: עַשֹֿׁשַׁנִּים Psa 45:1; Psa 69:1, עֵדוּת עַלשֿׁוּשַׁן Psa 60:1, עֵדוּת אֶלשֿׁשַׁגִּם Psa 80:1; meaning not clear, see Bae and Commentaries al.; yet compare עֵדוּת, below עוד.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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