- SUSANCHITES the inhabitants of Shushan, who joined the other
adversaries of the Jews in the attempt to prevent the rebuilding of the
temple (Ezra 4:9). - SUSANNA lily, with other pious women, ministered to Jesus (Luke 8:3).
- SUSI the father of Gaddi, who was one of the twelve spies (Numbers
13:11). - SWALLOW (1.) Hebrews sis (Isaiah 38:14; Jeremiah 8:7), the Arabic for
the swift, which “is a regular migrant, returning in myriads every spring,
and so suddenly that while one day not a swift can be seen in the country,
on the next they have overspread the whole land, and fill the air with their
shrill cry.” The swift (cypselus) is ordinarily classed with the swallow,
which it resembles in its flight, habits, and migration.
(2.) Hebrews deror, i.e., “the bird of freedom” (Psalm 84:3; Proverbs 26:2),
properly rendered swallow, distinguished for its swiftness of flight, its
love of freedom, and the impossibility of retaining it in captivity. In Isaiah
38:14 and Jeremiah 8:7 the word thus rendered (‘augr) properly means
“crane” (as in the R.V.).