Bible Dictionaries
Shoa

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Ezekiel 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."

Bibliography Information
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Shoa'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​s/shoa.html. 1949.