Asshur — the meaning of the Hebrew name אַשּׁוּר

אַשּׁוּר

ʼAshshûwr · pronounced ash-shoor' · Strong's H804 · a man and a place · also spelled Assur, Assyria, Assyrians

Asshur means Ashshur, the second son of Shem.

Built from

אָשַׁר ʼâshar (apparently from, H833) — to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy) open in the lexicon ›

אָשֻׁר ʼâshur (see, H838) — a step open in the lexicon ›

Strong's definition

or אַשֻּׁר; apparently from H833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire.

First appearance

Gen 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. (KJV)

Every verse that names Asshur

138 occurrences in 138 verses — Genesis, Numbers, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Hosea, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Zechariah

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