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Strong's #7799: shuwshan (pronounced shoo-shan')

or showshan {sho-shawn'}; or shoshan {sho- shawn'}; and (feminine) showshannah {sho-shan-naw'}; from 7797; a lily (from its whiteness), as a flower of arch. ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape): lily, Shoshannim.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁׁ / ּׁׁ / ׁׁ / ׁׁ

shûshan / shôshân / shôshannâh

1) lily

1a) probably any lily-like flower

1b) Shoshannim, in title of Ps. 45

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H7797



Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

1 Kings 7:19: "were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits."
1 Kings 7:22: "And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished."
1 Kings 7:26: "like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths."
2 Chronicles 4:5: "of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand"
Psalms 45:1: "To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves."
Psalms 69:1: "To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters"
Song of Solomon 2:1: "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys."
Song of Solomon 2:2: " As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters."
Song of Solomon 2:16: "My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies."
Song of Solomon 4:5: "roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies."
Song of Solomon 5:13: "as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh."
Song of Solomon 6:2: "to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies."
Song of Solomon 6:3: "am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies."
Song of Solomon 7:2: "is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies."
Hosea 14:5: "as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."









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