Shoa
(Heb. id. , a cry for help, or rich, or liberal; Sept. v.r. ; Vulg. tyranni), a proper name which occurs only in Eze 23:23, in connection with Pekod and Koa. The three apparently denote districts of Assyria with which the southern kingdom of Judah had been intimately connected, and which were to be arrayed against it for punishment. The Peshito-Syriac has Lud, that is, Lydia; while the Arabic of the London Polyglot has Sut, and Lud occupies the place of Koa. Rashi remarks on the three words, The interpreters say that they signify officers, princes, and rulers. This rendering must have been traditional at the time of Aquila ( ) and Jerome (nobiles, tyranni, et principes). Gesenius (Thesaur. p. 1208 a) maintains that the context requires the words to be taken as appellatives, and not as proper names; and Furst, on the same ground, maintains the contrary (Handwb. s.v. ). Those who take Shoa as an appellative refer to the use of the word in Job 34:19 (A.V. rich) and Isa 32:5 (A.V. bountiful), where it signifies rich, liberal, and stands in the latter passage in parallelism with , nadib, by which Kimchi explains it, and which is elsewhere rendered in the A.V. prince (Pro 17:7) and noble (8:16). But a consideration of the latter part of the verse (Eze 23:23), where the captains and rulers of the Assyrians are distinctly mentioned, and the fondness which Ezekiel elsewhere shows for playing upon the sound of proper names (as in Eze 27:10; Eze 30:5), lead to the conclusion that in this case Pekod, Shoa, and Koa are proper names also; but nothing further can be said. The only name which has been found at all resembling Shoa is that of a. town in Assyria mentioned by Pliny, Sue in rupibus, near Gangamela, and west of the Orontes mountain chain. Bochart (Phaleg, 4, 9) derives Sue from the Chaldee , shila’, a rock. SEE KOA.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Shoa
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)
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Shoa
Eze 23:23 (“rich”.) (See PEKOD; KOA.) Symbolical name for Babylon. Smith’s Bible Dictionary takes it as a proper name, upon the sound of which Ezekiel plays. Pliny mentions a “Sue” in the rocky region W. of the Orontes range, near Gaugamela. Shua in Chaldee means “rock.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Shoa
SHOA.A race named in Eze 23:23 along with Babylonians, Chaldans, Pekod, Koa, and Assyrians. The Sut were nomads, frequently named in the same company by Assyrian and Babylonian writers, and among other seats inhabited the E. of the Tigris.
C. H. W. Johns.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Shoa
shoa (, shoa; , Soue): A people named in Eze 23:23 in association with Babylonians, Chaldeans and Assyrians. Schrader identifies with the Sutu of the inscriptions (East of the Tigris).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Shoa
[Sho’a]
People mentioned among Israel’s ‘lovers,’ whom God would bring against them on every side. Eze 23:23. Nothing is known of a people or place of this name. Some judge the Hebrew word not to be a proper name, and translate it ‘prince,’ ‘noble,’ etc.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Shoa
H7772
An unknown country or city, or a symbolic term.
Eze 23:23
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Shoa
Sho’a. (rich). A proper name, which occurs only in Eze 23:23, in connection with Pekod and Koa. The three apparently designate districts of Assyria, with which the southern kingdom of Judah has been intimately connected, and which were to be arrayed against it for punishment.