HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7772
שׁוֹעַ
sho.a — Shoa
§ Shoa = "rich" a tribe of nomads of Mesopotamia
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Shoa
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Opulent, the mountain district lying to the north-east of Babylonia, anciently the land of the Guti, or Kuti, the modern Kurdistan. The plain lying between these mountains and the Tigris was called su-Edina, i.e., “the border of the plain.” This name was sometimes shortened into Suti and Su, and has been regarded as = Shoa (Ezek. 23:23). Some think it denotes a place in Babylon. (See PEKOD.)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.