King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7801
Transliteration: Shushankaye
Phonetic Spelling: (shoo-shan-kee')
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Short Definition: inhabitant of Susa
Meaning: Susa -- a Shushankite
Word 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).