shushan · Susa

What it means

shushan (שׁוּשַׁן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Susa”.

A city of Elam, one of the capitals of the kings of Persia. There Nehemiah served and there the book of Esther takes place.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Susa

  Today: Susa (Shush), southwestern Iran

  The winter capital of the Persian kings, in what is now southwest Iran.

  Nehemiah served the king at Susa (Neh 1:1), and Esther became queen there and saved her people (Esth 1:2; 4:16).

  Nehemiah 1:1Esther 1:2Daniel 8:2Esther 3:15

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×19
• Daniel×1

• Nehemiah 1:1

  The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. And it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the fortress,

• Esther 1:2

  in those days, when King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom that was in Susa, the fortress,

• Esther 1:5

  And when these days were completed, the king made for all the people who were present in Susa, the fortress, from the great to the small, a banquet of seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

• Esther 2:3

  and let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every young woman, a virgin of good appearance, to Susa, the fortress, to the house of the women, under the hand of Hege, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women; and let their ointments be given;

• Esther 2:5

  There was a Jewish man in Susa, the fortress, and his name was Mordecai, son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,

• Esther 2:8

  And it happened, when the word of the king and his law were heard and when many young women were gathered to Susa, the fortress, under the hand of Hegai, that Esther was taken to the king’s house, under the hand of Hegai, keeper of the women.

• Esther 3:15

  The couriers went out urged on by the word of the king, and the law was given in Susa, the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

• Esther 4:8

  And the copy of the writing of the law that had been given in Susa to destroy them he gave to him, to show Esther and to make it known to her, and to command her to go in to the king to implore him and to petition before him for her people.

• Esther 4:16

  “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and do not eat and do not drink for three days, night and day. I also and my young women will fast in the same way; and so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

• Esther 8:14

  The couriers, riding the royal steeds, went out hurried and urged on by the word of the king; and the law was given in Susa, the fortress.

• Esther 8:15

  And Mordecai went out from before the king in a royal robe of blue and white cloth, and with a great golden crown and a mantle of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted for joy and was glad.

• Esther 9:6

  And in Susa, the fortress, the Jews killed and made perish five hundred men,

• Esther 9:11

  On that day the number of those killed in Susa, the fortress, came before the king.

• Esther 9:12

  And the king said to Esther the queen, “In Susa, the fortress, the Jews have killed and made perish five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the king’s provinces what have they done? And what is your request? It will be given to you. And what is your petition further? It will be done.”

• Esther 9:13

  And Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let it be granted also tomorrow to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the law of today; and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the pole.”

• Esther 9:14

  And the king said that it should be done so; and a law was given in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

• Esther 9:15

  And the Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed in Susa three hundred men; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.

• Esther 9:18

  But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth of it and on the fourteenth of it, and rested on the fifteenth of it, and made it a day of banqueting and gladness.

• Daniel 8:2

  And I saw in the vision, and it happened, when I saw, that I was in Susa the fortress, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

And 2 more times.