Shoa

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sho'a. (Rich). A proper name, which occurs only in  Ezekiel 23:23, in connection with Pekod and Koa. The three apparently designate districts of Assyria, with which the southern kingdom of Judah has been intimately connected, and which were to be arrayed against it for punishment.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Ezekiel 23:23 ("rich".) (See Pekod ; KOA.) Symbolical name for Babylon. Smith's Bible Dictionary takes it as a proper name, upon the sound of which Ezekiel plays. Pliny mentions a "Sue" in the rocky region W. of the Orontes range, near Gaugamela. Shua in Chaldee means "rock."

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SHOA . A race named in   Ezekiel 23:23 along with Babylonians, Chaldæans, Pekod, Koa, and Assyrians. The Sutû were nomads, frequently named in the same company by Assyrian and Babylonian writers, and among other seats inhabited the E. of the Tigris.

C. H. W. Johns.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

People mentioned among Israel's 'lovers,' whom God would bring against them on every side.  Ezekiel 23:23 . Nothing is known of a people or place of this name. Some judge the Hebrew word not to be a proper name, and translate it 'prince,' 'noble,' etc.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Ezekiel 23:23Pekod

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Ezekiel 23:23 Isaiah 22:5

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. id. שׁוֹעִ , a cry for help, or Rich, or Liberal ; Sept. Σουέ v.r. Σούδ ; Vulg. Tyranni ) , a proper name which occurs only in  Ezekiel 23:23, in connection with Pekod and Koa. The three apparently denote districts of Assyria with which the southern kingdom of Judah had been intimately connected, and which were to be arrayed against it for punishment. The Peshito-Syriac has Lud, that is, Lydia; while the Arabic of the London Polyglot has Sut, and Lud occupies the place of Koa. Rashi remarks on the three words, "The interpreters say that they signify officers, princes, and rulers." This rendering must have been traditional at the time of Aquila ( Ἐπισκέπτης Καὶ Τύραννοκ Καὶ Κορυφαῖος ) and Jerome ( Nobiles, Tyranni, Et Principes ) . Gesenius ( Thesaur. p. 1208 a) maintains that the context requires the words to be taken as appellatives, and not as proper names; and Furst, on the same ground, maintains the contrary ( Handwb. s.v. קיע ). Those who take Shoa as an appellative refer to the use of the word in  Job 34:19 (A.V. "rich") and  Isaiah 32:5 (A.V. "bountiful"), where it signifies rich, liberal, and stands in the latter passage in parallelism with נָדַיב , Nadib, by which Kimchi explains it, and which is elsewhere rendered in the A.V. "prince" ( Proverbs 17:7) and noble" (8:16). But a consideration of the latter part of the verse ( Ezekiel 23:23), where the captains and rulers of the Assyrians are distinctly mentioned, and the fondness which Ezekiel elsewhere shows for playing upon the sound of proper names (as in  Ezekiel 27:10;  Ezekiel 30:5), lead to the conclusion that in this case Pekod, Shoa, and Koa are proper names also; but nothing further can be said. The only name which has been found at all resembling Shoa is that of a. town in Assyria mentioned by Pliny, "Sue in rupibus," near Gangamela, and west of the Orontes mountain chain. Bochart ( Phaleg, 4, 9) derives Sue from the Chaldee שׁוּעָא , shila', a rock. (See Koa).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

shō´a ( שׁע , shōa‛  ; Σουέ , Soué ): A people named in   Ezekiel 23:23 in association with Babylonians, Chaldeans and Assyrians. Schrader identifies with the Sutū of the inscriptions (East of the Tigris).

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

The southmost division of Abyssinia ( q. v .); was an independent country till its conquest by Theodore of Abyssinia in 1855; is traversed by the Blue Nile, and has a mixed population of Gallas and Abyssinians.