Lexical Summary Shushankaye: inhabitant of Susa Original Word: שׁוּשַׁנְכִיTransliteration: Shushankaye Phonetic Spelling: (shoo-shan-kee') Part of Speech: Proper Name Short Definition: inhabitant of Susa Meaning: Susa -- a Shushankite Strong's Concordance Susanchites (Aramaic) of foreign origin; a Shushankite (collectively) or inhabitants of some unknown place in Assyrian -- Susanchites. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7801. Shushankaye שׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵא proper name, of a people plural the Susians, people of Susa Ezra 4:9, see דהוא (DlPa 327; singular [שׁוּשַׁנָךְ] according to Scheft92, = Old Persian * šušana-ka, from Susa, so (as alternative) AndrM 85 *; compare (on Elamite god Šušinak) WeissbachAnzanische Inschr. 136 JenVOJ vi. 54 ZimKAT 3. 485, and (on Šušun‡a in Elamite inscription, apparently proper name, of a territory) see Weissbl.c. JenZMG iv (1901), 229). |