STRONGS NUMBER H7801


Word Summary
Shushankaye: inhabitant of Susa
Original Word: שׁוּשַׁנְכִי
Transliteration: 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

שׁוּשַׁנְכָיֵאproper 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).