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title: שׁוּשַׁן — Shushan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוּשַׁן (7800), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 21 times: Shushan. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Susa. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוּשַׁן

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«שׁוּשַׁן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shushan** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 21 times · **Key:** 7800 · **BDB:** שׁוּשַׁן²

### Glosses

Susa (20); of.Susa (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shushan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7800/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Susa [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7800/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Susa, winter residence of Persian kings; Σουσαν, ἐν Σουσοις (cuneif. Šûšan DlPa 326 COT Ne 1:1 Billerbeck Susa Say Hast. DB Shushan);—שׁ׳ הַבִּירָה Ne 1:1 (9th month, כִּסְלֵו), Dn 8:2 (in Elam), Est 1:2, 5; 2:3, 5, 8; 3:15a; 8:14; 9:6, 11, 12 (12th month, אֲדָר, v 1); הַבּ׳ om., שׁוּשָׁ֑ן Est 4:8, 16 and (month אֲדָר) 9:13, 14, 15(×2), 18; הָעִיר שׁ׳ 3:15b; 8:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוּשַׁן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7800/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 9:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.6/)

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וּבְשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֗ה הָרְג֤וּ הַיְּהוּדִים֙ וְאַבֵּ֔ד חֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת אִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* and in Susa the citadel they.killed the Jews and they.destroyed five hundred(s) man

*JPS 1917:* And in Shushan the castle the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

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[Esther 9:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.11/)

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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא בָּ֣א מִסְפַּ֧ר הַֽהֲרוּגִ֛ים בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* on the day (the) that it.came the.number of.\[those\] killed in Susa the citadel before the king

*JPS 1917:* On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the castle was brought before the king.

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