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Esther 9:6
“And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שׁוּשַׁןShûwshan · shoo-shan'
H7800 · Hebrew
H7800 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Shushan, a place in Persia
- Derivation
- the same as H7799 (שׁוּשַׁן);
- KJV renderings
- Shushan.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בְ — preposition
- שׁוּשַׁ֣ן — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 21 times in the Hebrew Bible.Nehemiah 1:1Esther 1:2Esther 1:5Esther 2:3Esther 2:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שׁוּשַׁן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.