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Ashur
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ash'-ur (who is happy, or walks, or looks; black)
RELATED: Hezron, Tekoa |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
(no entry)
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
who is happy; or walks; or looks
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(black), The posthumous son of Hezron by his wife Abiah.
( 1 Chronicles 2:24 ; 4:5 ) He became "father" or founder of the town of Tekoa.
(B.C. 1658.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
See From ASHHUR.
ash'-ur (ashchur, the King James Version Ashur):
The "father of Tekoa" (1 Chronicles 2:24; 4:5), probably the founder of the village.
The original meaning of the name is the "man of Horus," Ashurites (ha-'ashuri).
This name occurs in the list of Ish-bosheth's subjects (2 Samuel 2:9).
The Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) versions
read ha-geshuri, "the Geshurites," designating the small kingdom to the South
or Southeast of Damascus. This reading, though adopted by Ewald, Thenius and Wellhausen,
is untenable, for during the reign of Ish-bosheth Geshur was ruled by its own
king Talmai, whose daughter was married to David (2 Samuel 3:3; 13:37). Furthermore
Geshur was too far away from the rest of Ishbosheth's territory. A more consistent
reading is ha- 'asheri, as given in the Targum of Jonathan and accepted by Kohler,
Klost, Kirkpatrick and Budde, "those of the house of Asher" (compare Judges 1:32).
The term would, then, denote the country to the West of Jordan above Jezreel.
Samuel Cohon
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