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# שׁוּשַׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7799

**lily** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7799/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּשַׁן: n.m. n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7799/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. שׁוֹשַׁנָּה n.f. usually lily, prob. any lily-like flower (TristrNHB 462 ff. Post Hast. DB Lily Löw No. 323; NH שׁוֹשַׁנָּה, Arabic سَوْسَنٌ (Vulg. سُوسَنٌ), especially iris, Aramaic שׁוּשַׁנְתָּא, ܫܽܘܫܰܢܬܳܐ (PS 4344), Gk. σοῦσον LewyFremdw. 48; orig. loan-word from Egyptian sššn, šôšĕn, Erman ZMG xlvi (1892), 117);—lily: in sim., יִפְרַח כַּשּׁוֹשַׁנָּה Ho 14:6 (of Isr.), כְּשׁוֹ׳ בֵּין הַחוֹחִים Ct 2:2 (sim. of bride), so cstr. שׁוֹשַׁנַּת הָעֲמָקִים v 1 (cf. חֲבַצֶּלֶת); pl. שׁוֹשַׁנִּים 2:16; 4:5; 6:2, 3; 7:3 and (fig. of lover’s lips) 5:13; of flower-shaped capitals of pillars, מַעֲשֵׂה שׁוּשַׁן 1 K 7:19, מ׳ שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן v 22; cf. פֶּרַח שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן of brim of molten sea v 26, ‖ פ׳ שׁוֹשַׁנָּה 2 Ch 4:5; elsewhere only ψ-titles: עַל־שֹׁשַׁנִּים ψ 45:1; 69:1, עַל־שׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת 60:1, אֶל־שֹׁשַׁנִּים עֵדוּת 80:1; meaning not clear, v. Bae et Comm. al.; yet cf. עֵדוּת, sub עוד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 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, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lilies (5); Shoshannim (3); of a lily (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 69:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֬חַ עַֽל־שׁוֹשַׁנִּ֬ים לְדָוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster on Shoshannim of David

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.

[Song of Songs 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/#tree)

אֲנִי֙ חֲבַצֶּ֣לֶת הַשָּׁר֔וֹן שֽׁוֹשַׁנַּ֖ת הָעֲמָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I \[am\].the.crocus of.(the) Sharon (the).lily of the.valleys

*JPS 1917:* I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7799.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7799/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).