Lexical Definition

‎אֲשֻׁר‎ ʼăshur (ash-oor') pine ^H:N-F
contracted for ‎תְּאַשּׁוּר‎

Ashurite.

• the cedar tree or some other light elastic wood

1) one from the tribe of Asher

Extended Information

• pine wood

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: תְּאַשּׁוּר

‎תְּאַשּׁוּר‎ noun feminine box-tree (on form compare Sta^{§ 267}) Isa 41:19; Isa 60:13; Ezek 27:6 (compare above) a small evergreen tree about 20 feet high, growing on Lebanon, Bo Tristr^{Nat. Hist. Bib 339}, so ᵑ9 ᵑ7 RV. (Others sherbîn, a species of cedar distinguished by the smallness of its cones and the upward direction of its branches, compare Thes Rob-Ges.)

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