Shushan

3 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Shushan
     a lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the capital of
     Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the
     Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian
     Gulf. It is the modern Shush, on the northwest of Shuster. Once
     a magnificent city, it is now an immense mass of ruins. Here


     Daniel saw one of his visions (Dan. 8); and here also Nehemiah
     (Neh. 1) began his public life. Most of the events recorded in
     the Book of Esther took place here. Modern explorers have
     brought to light numerous relics, and the ground-plan of the
     splendid palace of Shushan, one of the residences of the great
     king, together with numerous specimens of ancient art, which
     illustrate the statements of Scripture regarding it (Dan. 8:2).
     The great hall of this palace (Esther 1) "consisted of several
     magnificent groups of columns, together with a frontage of 343
     feet 9 inches, and a depth of 244 feet. These groups were
     arranged into a central phalanx of thirty-six columns (six rows
     of six each), flanked on the west, north, and east by an equal
     number, disposed in double rows of six each, and distant from
     them 64 feet 2 inches." The inscriptions on the ruins represent
     that the palace was founded by Darius and completed by
     Artaxerxes.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Shushan, lily; rose; joy
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Shushan, NY
    Zip code(s): 12873