Lexical Definition

‎אַשּׁוּר‎ ʼAshshûwr (ash-shoor') Assyria ^N:N--L
or אַשֻּׁר ʼAshshur (ash-shoor'); apparently from ‎אָשַׁר‎ (in the sense of successful)

Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See ‎אָשֻׁר‎.

• § Asshur or Assyria = "a step"
• Ashshur, the second son of Shem
• also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire

n pr m
1) the second son of Shem, eponymous ancestor of the Assyrians
2) the people of Assyria
n pr loc
3) the nation, Assyria
4) the land, Assyria or Asshur

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: אָשֻׁר

‎אַשּׁוּר‎ proper name, of a people & territory Asshur, Assyria (Assyrian Aššur, land & city Dl^{Pa 252} COT on Gen 2:14 Persian Athura, Syriac ; on the connection with name of god Ašur, & with √ ‎אשׁר‎ = ‎ישׁר‎ good, gracious, compare COT^l.c.; see also Jen^{ZA, 1886, 1 f.} Schr^{ib. 209 f.} Nö^{ib. 268 f.})

1. Asshur as person, 2nd son of Shem Gen 10:22 (P, in table of nations) 1Chr 1:17.

2. people of Asshur (often as invading army & even world-power) Num 24:22; Num 24:24 (poem of Balaam) Hos 12:2*; Hos 14:4*; Isa 10:5; Isa 14:25; Isa 19:23 (twice in verse); Isa 19:24; Isa 19:25; Isa 23:13; Isa 30:31; Isa 31:8; Isa 52:4; Lam 5:6; Ezek 23:5; Ezek 27:23; Ezek 32:22 (here feminine) Zech 10:11; Ps 83:9* perhaps read ‎גְּשׁוּר‎, compare 2Sam 2:9 below ‎אֲשׁוּרִי‎; or (if Ps 83 be late) regard ‎אַשּׁוּר‎ (like ‎עֲמָלֵק‎ ib.) as used because of ancient significance; sometimes personified as one Isa 10:5; Ezek 31:3 (but strike out Co q. v.), compare also Mic 5:4*; Mic 5:5*; Zeph 2:13 ‎׳‎‎מַחֲנֵה א‎ 2Kgs 19:32 = Isa 37:36 ‎׳‎‎בְּנֵי א‎ Ezek 16:28; Ezek 23:7; Ezek 23:9; Ezek 23:12; Ezek 23:23.

3. land of Assyria Gen 2:14; Gen 10:11; Hos 5:13; Hos 7:11; Hos 8:9; Hos 9:3; Hos 10:6; Isa 11:11; Isa 11:16; Isa 19:23; Jer 2:18; Jer 2:36; Mic 7:12; Zech 10:10 ‎אַשּׁ֫וּרָה‎ Gen 25:18; Isa 19:23; 2Kgs 15:29; 2Kgs 17:6; 2Kgs 17:23; 2Kgs 18:11 ‎אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר‎ Isa 7:18; Isa 27:13; Hos 11:11; Mic 5:5*.

4. especially ‎מֶלֶךְ‎ ‎אַשּׁוּר‎ Isa 8:4; Isa 10:12; Isa 20:1; Isa 20:4; Isa 20:6 (probably gloss Isa 7:17; Isa 7:20; Isa 8:7) 2Kgs 15:19 + 41 t. 2 Kings; 14 t. Isa 36-38; 1Chr 5:6 (‎אַשֻּׁר‎) + 13 t. Chronicles; also Jer 50:17; Jer 50:18; Nah 3:18; Ezra 4:2 (only Ezra 6:22 of Persian or any king not strictly Assyrian); note also ‎׳‎‎הַמֶּלֶךְ א‎ Isa 36:8; Isa 36:16 (‎׳‎‎א‎ perhaps gloss, compare Di who holds same view as to 2Kgs 18:23; 2Kgs 18:31); ‎׳‎‎מַלְכֵי א‎ 2Kgs 19:11; 2Kgs 19:17 = Isa 37:11; Isa 37:18; 2Chr 28:16; 2Chr 30:6; Neh 9:32.

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