Shoshannim

Shoshannim (Hebrew ששנים, 'lilies') is mentioned in Psalm 45 and Psalm 69. Its meaning in these Psalms in uncertain. Some believe it to be a kind of lily-shaped straight trumpet , a six-stringed instrument , a word commencing a song or the melody to which these psalms were to be sung .

The Hebrew root word used is Psalm 45 and 69 according to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/shuwshan.html is Strong's #7799 defined as "probably any lily-like flower"

The tenor bell of St Peter's Church, Chertsey (England), cast in 1670 by Bryan(?) Eldridge of Chertsey (maybe in itself a recasting of an earlier Chertsey Abbey bell), was recast in 1859 by George Mears of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry at the expense of Angela Burdett-Coutts, and by her specially named "Shoshannim".[1]

  1. ↑ See http://www.stpeterschertsey.org/bells/bells.htm


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