Lily
שׁוּשַׁןStrong’s H7799shushan (shu-shan)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shushan is the Hebrew word usually translated “lili”, “shoshannim” and “among the lilies”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.”
Meaning
- Lilyprobably any lily-like flower · Shoshannim, in title of Ps 45:1
How it's translated
- lili 3
- shoshannim 3
- among the lilies 3
- lilies 2
- a lily 1
- shushan- 1
- lily of 1
- like a lily 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 8
- Psalms 4
- 1 Kings 3
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Hosea 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:22And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
- 1 Kings 7:26And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
- Psalms 45:1My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
- Psalms 60:1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּשַׁן shushan · lily
1) lily 1a) probably any lily-like flower 1b) Shoshannim, in title of Ps 45:1
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lily” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIL'Y, noun
[Latin lilium; Gr.]
A genus of plants of many species, which are all bulbous-rooted, herbaceous perennials, producing bell-shaped, hexapetalous flowers of great beauty and variety of colors.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.