lily; rose; joy
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SUSANNA.See Apocrypha, § 5.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("lily".) One of the women who ministered to the Lord Jesus (Luk_8:3).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
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. Luk_8:3. (A.D. 28-30).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
(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 (1Ch_2:31; 1Ch_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.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.