אַשּׁוּר

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.

The 34 distinct written forms H804 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
אַשּׁ֔וּר	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 16:28	31
אַשּׁ֖וּר	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 23:5	20
אַשּֽׁוּר	Noun, Proper	2 Chronicles 30:6	18
אַשּׁ֑וּר	Noun, Proper	Genesis 2:14	16
אַשּׁוּר֙	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 32:22	13
אַשּׁ֛וּר	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 18:9	6
אַשּׁ֣וּר	Noun, Proper	Hosea 12:1	4
אַשּׁ֤וּר	Noun, Proper	2 Chronicles 32:9	4
אַשּׁ֑וּרָ/ה	Noun, Proper	Genesis 25:18	3
אַשּׁ֗וּר	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 5:26	3
אַשּׁ֜וּר	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 31:3	3
אַשּׁ֥וּר	Noun, Proper	Hosea 7:11	3
אַשּׁ֔וּרָ/ה	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 17:23	2
אַשּׁ֡וּר	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 17:24	2
אַשּׁ֨וּר	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 23:12	2
וְ/אַשּׁ֖וּר	Noun, Proper	Hosea 11:5	2
מֵֽ/אַשּׁ֑וּר	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 10:24	2
אַ֠שּׁוּר	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 20:4	1
אַ֭שּׁוּר	Noun, Proper	Psalms 83:8	1
אַשֻּׁ֑ר	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 5:6	1
אַשּֽׁוּרָ/ה	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 15:29	1
אַשּׁוּר֒	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 15:29	1
אַשּׁוּר֩	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 18:14	1
אַשּׁוּר֮	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 17:26	1
בְּ/אַשּׁ֑וּר	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 19:23	1
וְ/אַשּׁ֑וּר	Noun, Proper	Genesis 10:22	1
וְ/אַשּׁ֔וּר	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 1:17	1
וּ/בְ/אַשּׁ֖וּר	Noun, Proper	Hosea 9:3	1
וּ/לְ/אַשּׁ֑וּר	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 19:24	1
וּ/מֵֽ/אַשּׁ֖וּר	Noun, Proper	Zechariah 10:10	1
לְ/אַשּׁ֣וּר	Noun, Proper	Hosea 10:6	1
מֵ/אַשּׁ֨וּר	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 11:11	1
מֵ/אַשּֽׁוּר	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 2:36	1
מֵֽ/אַשּׁ֔וּר	Noun, Proper	Micah 5:6	1

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H804, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• אשר ʼâshar H833 to go straight

Shares the same root

• אשר ʼesher H835 blessed
• אשר ʼôsher H837 happiness
• אשר ʼâshur H838 step
• אשרנא ʼushsharnâʼ H846 wall
• תאשור tᵉʼashshûwr H8391 box tree

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• אשר ʼÂshêr H836 Asher
• אשראל ʼĂsarʼêl H840 Asareel
• אשרה ʼăshêrâh H842 Asherah
• אשורי ʼĂshûwrîy H805 Asshuri

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Assyria). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

The name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the original capital of the country, was originally a colony from Babylonia, and was ruled by viceroys from that kingdom. It was a mountainous region lying to the north of Babylonia, extending along the Tigris as far as to the high mountain range of Armenia, the Gordiaean or Carduchian mountains. It was founded in B.C. 1700 under Bel-kap-kapu, and became an independent and a conquering power, and shook off the yoke of its Babylonian masters. It subdued the whole of Northern Asia. The Assyrians were Semites (Gen. 10:22), but in process of time non-Semite tribes mingled with the inhabitants. They were a military people, the "Romans of the East."

Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria little is positively known. In B.C. 1120 Tiglath-pileser I., the greatest of the Assyrian kings, "crossed the Euphrates, defeated the kings of the Hittites, captured the city of Carchemish, and advanced as far as the shores of the Mediterranean." He may be regarded as the founder of the first Assyrian empire. After this the Assyrians gradually extended their power, subjugating the states of Northern Syria. In the reign of Ahab, king of Israel, Shalmaneser II. marched an army against the Syrian states, whose allied army he encountered and vanquished at Karkar. This led to Ahab's casting off the yoke of Damascus and allying himself with Judah. Some years after this the Assyrian king marched an army against Hazael, king of Damascus. He besieged and took that city. He also brought under tribute Jehu, and the cities of Tyre and Sidon.

About a hundred years after this (B.C. 745) the crown was seized by a military adventurer called Pul, who assumed the name of Tiglath-pileser III. He directed his armies into Syria, which had by this time regained its independence, and took (B.C. 740) Arpad, near Aleppo, after a siege of three years, and reduced Hamath. Azariah (Uzziah) was an ally of the king of Hamath, and thus was compelled by Tiglath-pileser to do him homage and pay a yearly tribute.

In B.C. 738, in the reign of Menahem, king of Israel, Pul invaded Israel, and imposed on it a heavy tribute (2 Kings 15:19). Ahaz, the king of Judah, when engaged in a war against Israel and Syria, appealed for help to this Assyrian king by means of a present of gold and silver (2 Kings 16:8); who accordingly "marched against Damascus, defeated and put Rezin to death, and besieged the city itself." Leaving a portion of his army to continue the siege, "he advanced through the province east of Jordan, spreading fire and sword," and became master of Philistia, and took Samaria and Damascus. He died B.C. 727, and was succeeded by Shalmanezer IV., who ruled till B.C. 722. He also invaded Syria (2 Kings 17:5), but was deposed in favour of Sargon (q.v.) the Tartan, or commander-in-chief of the army, who took Samaria (q.v.) after a siege of three years, and so put an end to the kingdom of Israel, carrying the people away into captivity, B.C. 722 (2 Kings 17:1-6, 24; 18:7, 9). He also overran the land of Judah, and took the city of Jerusalem (Isa. 10:6, 12, 22, 24, 34). Mention is next made of Sennacherib (B.C. 705), the son and successor of Sargon (2 Kings 18:13; 19:37; Isa. 7:17, 18); and then of Esar-haddon, his son and successor, who took Manasseh, king of Judah, captive, and kept him for some time a prisoner at Babylon, which he alone of all the Assyrian kings made the seat of his government (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38).

Assur-bani-pal, the son of Esarhaddon, became king, and in Ezra 4:10 is referred to as Asnapper. From an early period Assyria had entered on a conquering career, and having absorbed Babylon, the kingdoms of Hamath, Damascus, and Samaria, it conquered Phoenicia, and made Judea feudatory, and subjected Philistia and Idumea. At length, however, its power declined. In B.C. 727 the Babylonians threw off the rule of the Assyrians, under the leadership of the powerful Chaldean prince Merodach-baladan (2 Kings 20:12), who, after twelve years, was subdued by Sargon, who now reunited the kingdom, and ruled over a vast empire. But on his death the smouldering flames of rebellion again burst forth, and the Babylonians and Medes successfully asserted their independence (B.C. 625), and Assyria fell according to the prophecies of Isaiah (10:5-19), Nahum (3:19), and Zephaniah (3:13), and the many separate kingdoms of which it was composed ceased to recognize the "great king" (2 Kings 18:19; Isa. 36:4). Ezekiel (31) attests (about B.C. 586) how completely Assyria was overthrown. It ceases to be a nation. (See NINEVEH; BABYLON.)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

country of Assur or Ashur

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This word appears in 135 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 138 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

Read these verses in the Septuagint

• Genesis 2:14
• Numbers 24:22
• 2 Kings 15:19
• 1 Chronicles 1:17
• 2 Chronicles 28:16
• Ezra 4:2
• Psalms 83:8
• Isaiah 7:17
• Jeremiah 2:18
• Lamentations 5:6
• Ezekiel 16:28
• Hosea 5:13

This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.