Susanna

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A name well known in Scripture; probably derived from Shoshan, a lily, or rose. And some have thought on this account that the church calls herself Shoshan, when in the Canticles she saith, "I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the vallies." And if so, it is worthy remark that Jesus confining this name to his church, when immediately after he adds, "as the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters." (See  Song of Song of Solomon 2:1-2) But whether so or not, certain it is that the church in Christ's esteem is, as Shoshan, their is both the rose and the lily, for grace, loveliness, and fragrancy. Let any one behold the church made white, or the lily in her Redeemer's righteousness, or red as the rose, being washed in his blood; let the fragrancy of the graces of faith and love, when going forth in the lively exercise upon the person of her Lord, be considered; let the fruitfulness of the once wilderness state of the heart, now blossoming like the rose, be marked: and when like the rose the odour is called forth and exhaled by the sun's beams shining upon her, and let every one then say, what can be more beautifully descriptive of the church than such emblems.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

Susanna ( Σουσάννα fr. שׁוֹשַׁנָּה, fem. שׁוֹשַׁן, which denotes a lily or any lily-like flower).—All that is known of her is that she was one of the women who ministered to Jesus ( Luke 8:3). The mention of her name without further particulars implies that she was well known. This may have been due to her special devotion, in which case reference to her on other occasions would have been expected, or to her social rank, which view may derive support from the succession of her name to that of Joanna (wh. see).

R. W. Moss.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Susan'na. (A Lily).

1. The heroine of the story, of the Judgment of Daniel. (The book which gives an account of her life is also called "The history of Susanna," and is one of the apocryphal books of the Bible).

2. One of the women, who ministered to the Lord.  Luke 8:3. (A.D. 28-30).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

One of the women who had the honour of ministering to the Lord of their substance.  Luke 8:3 .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("lily".) One of the women who ministered to the Lord Jesus ( Luke 8:3).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SUSANNA . See Apocrypha, § 5 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Luke 8:2-3

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Luke 8:3

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( Σουσάννα v.r. Σωσάννα ; i.e. שׁוֹשִׁנָּה , 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 ( 1 Chronicles 2:31;  1 Chronicles 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.