Sansannah

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A town in the Negeb or south country ( Joshua 15:31), also called Ηazar Susah or Susim , "horse court," i.e. "depot of horses" ( Joshua 19:5, compare  1 Chronicles 4:31). The Wady Es Sung , S. of Gaza, the first resting place for horses from Gaza to Egypt. See Wilton. Negeg, 213.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sansan'nah. (Palm Branch). One of the towns, in the south district of Judah, named in  Joshua 15:31 only.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Sansannah . An unidentified town in the Negeb (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘the South’) allotted to Judah (  Joshua 15:31 ).

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A city of Judah, ( Joshua 15:31) If Senah, a bush, it should seem to mean "the bush of the bush."

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:31 Joshua 19:5 1 Chronicles 4:31

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:31 1 Chronicles 4:31

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Town in the south of Judah.  Joshua 15:31 . Not identified.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Sansannah', סִנְסִנָּה , Palmbranch; Sept. Σανσαννά v.r. Σεθεννάκ ), A town in the southern part of the territory of Judah ( Joshua 15:31). The corresponding lists of Simeon ( Joshua 19:5;  1 Chronicles 4:31) seem to call it Hazar-Susah (See Hazar- Susah) (q.v.). It is identified by Schwarz with the village of Simsum, on a river of the same name, northeast of Gaza — a position which he acknowledges, however, to be rather in the lowlands than in the south of Judah ( Palest. p. 101, 123); but the boundary line can easily be accommodated to this location. (See Tribe Of Judah). Wilton would identify it with the Wady Es-Suny mentioned by Robinson ( Bibl. Res. 1, 299, 300), not far south of Gaza, which he supposes to have been the first resting place for horses after leaving Gaza on the way to Egypt; and he thinks a confirmation is found for this in the circumstance that various travelers, in passing north from Egypt, have noticed that they first met with horses about that locality (Negeb, p. 210). Lieut. Conder thinks (Tent- Work in Palest. 2, 339) that it was at Beit-susin, east of the valley of Sorek; but this could not possibly have been within the territory of Simeon.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

san - san´a ( סנסנּה , ṣanṣannāh  ; Σανσάννα , Sansánna , or Σεθεννάκ , Sethennák ): One of the uttermost cities in the Negeb of Judah (  Joshua 15:31 ), identical with Hazar-susah ( Joshua 19:5 ), one of the cities of Simeon, and almost certainly the same as Hazar-susim ( 1 Chronicles 4:31 ). It cannot be said to have been identified with any certainty, though Simsim , "a good-sized village with well and pool, surrounded by gardens and having a grove of olives to the north," has been suggested ( PEF , III, 260, Sh XX).