Shushan
shoo'-shan (shushan; Sousan, Sousa):
1. Position, Eytmology and Forms of Its Name:
This city, the Susu or Susan of the Babylonians, and the
native (Elamite) Susun, is the modern Shush (Sus) in
Southwestern Persia, a series of ruin-mounds on the banks of
the river Kerkha. The ancient etymologies ("city of lilies"
or "of horses") are probably wor...
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1. Capitol of the Medo-Persian Empire
Es 1:2,3; 8:15
-2. King's palace at
Ne 1:1; Es 1:2,5; 2:5,8; 4:8,16; 8:14,15; 9:11,15...
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(a lily), is said to have received its name from the
abundance of the lily (shushan or shushanah) in its
neighborhood. It was originally the capital of the country
called in Scripture Elam, and by the classical writers Susis
or Susiana. In the time of Daniel Susa was in the possession
of the Babylonians, to whom Elam had probably passed at the...
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a lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the
capital of
Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east
of the
Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of
the Persian
Gulf. It is the modern Shush, on the northwest of
Shuster. Once
a magnificent city, it is now an immense mass of
ruins. Here
Daniel saw one of his visio...
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Named from its abundant lilies. Capital of Elam, Cissia, or
Susiana. Asshur-bani-pal, Esarhaddon's successor, in
inscriptions says he took Shur and gives its ground plan
sculptured (Layard Nin. 452), 600 B.C. In Belshazzar's last
year Daniel was at Shushan in the palace (not actually, but
transported in spirit) when he saw the vision (Daniel 8...
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So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree
was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto
Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was
brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai,
keeper of the women....
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And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto
all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both
unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden
of the king's palace;...
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And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his
kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young
virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women,
unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the
women; and let their things for purification be given [them]:...
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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan,
and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days,
night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so
will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the
law: and if I perish, I perish....
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