herusha

Updated: May 8, 2025

Sometimes they were the Herusha or "Lords of the Sands," sometimes the Shasu or "Plunderers," sometimes again the Sutê or "Archers." The third name was borrowed from the Babylonians; in return, as we learn from the tablets of Tel el-Amarna, the Babylonians adopted the second.

A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce - Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations