McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Susanna

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Susanna


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( ÓïõóÜííá v.r. ÓùóÜííá ; i.e. ùׁåֹùִׁðָּä , Shoshanndh, a lily [q.v.]), the name of two females in the Bible. The name likewise occurs in Diod. Sic. as that of the daughter of Ninus (2, 6); and Sheshan (1Ch_2:31; 1Ch_2:34-35) is of the same origin and meaning (Gesen. Thesaur. s.v.).

I. The heroine of the story of the Judgment of Daniel in the Apocrypha, otherwise called.