ashur · step

What it means

ashur (אָשֻׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “step”.

A step, a footstep.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Where someone goes, and how they live.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• steps ×8
• step ×1

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×1

• Job 23:11

  My foot has held fast to his steps; his way I have kept, and have not turned aside.

• Job 31:7

  If my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and a stain has stuck to my palms,

• Psalms 17:5

  My steps have held fast to your tracks; my footsteps have not been moved.

• Psalms 17:11

  At our steps, now they have surrounded us; they set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

• Psalms 37:31

  The instruction of his Elohim is in his heart; his steps will not slip.

• Psalms 40:2

  And he brought me up from the pit of tumult, from the mud of the mire, and set my feet upon a crag; he made firm my steps.

• Psalms 44:18

  Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path,

• Psalms 73:2

  But as for me, almost my feet turned aside; nearly my steps slipped.

• Proverbs 14:15

  The simple believes every word, but the shrewd understands his steps.