geshuri · Geshurite

What it means

geshuri (גְּשׁוּרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Geshurite”.

An inhabitant of Geshur, a small kingdom northeast of the Lake of Kinnereth; also a people near the Philistines.

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. Geshurites: people of Geshur.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Geshurites ×5
• Geshurite ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×4
• 1 Samuel×1

• Deuteronomy 3:14

  Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them by his name, Bashan Havvoth-jair, to this day.)

• Joshua 12:5

  and ruled over Mount Hermon and over Salecah and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

• Joshua 13:2

  This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites

• Joshua 13:11

  and Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;

• Joshua 13:13

  But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites, and Geshur and Maacath live in the midst of Israel to this day.

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  David and his men would go up and raid the Geshurites, the Gizrites, and the Amalekites, for these inhabited the land from of old, as you go toward Shur and as far as the land of Egypt.