אַשּׁוּר

ashur · Assyria, Asshur

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H804 · appears 151 times in the Bible

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What it means

ashur (אַשּׁוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Assyria, Asshur”.

Assyria (in Hebrew, Asshur): a region and people of northern Mesopotamia, later a great empire; also the name of a son of Shem.

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a·shur

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.

The place

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Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
2 Kings 17:6 Isaiah 10:5 Hosea 11:5 2 Chronicles 33:11

How it is translated

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Assyria ×147
Asshur ×4

Where it appears

Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 10:11
From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 25:18
They lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you go toward Assyria. He settled facing all his brothers.
Numbers 24:22
nevertheless, Cain shall be for burning. How long until Asshur takes you captive?”
Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the hand of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur and shall afflict Eber; and he also shall come to destruction.”
2 Kings 15:19
Pul king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that his hands might be with him to strengthen the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings 15:20
Menahem imposed the silver on Israel, on all the men of worth, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver from each man. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.
2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried them into exile to Assyria.
2 Kings 16:7
Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising against me.”
2 Kings 16:8
Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of YHWH and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and sent to the king of Assyria a bribe.
2 Kings 16:9
The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria went up to Damascus and seized it and carried it into exile to Kir, and Rezin he put to death.
2 Kings 16:10
King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria at Damascus, and he saw the altar that was in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, for all its workmanship.
2 Kings 16:18
And the covered portico of the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the outer entrance of the king, he changed in the house of YHWH because of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 17:3
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.
2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria found in Hoshea a conspiracy, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had not brought up tribute to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria detained him and bound him in prison.
2 Kings 17:5
The king of Assyria came up through all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:23
until YHWH removed Israel from before his face, as he had spoken through all his servants the prophets. And Israel went into exile from its land to Assyria, to this day.
2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
2 Kings 17:26
They spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations that you carried into exile and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the god of the land; so he has sent against them the lions, and there they are, putting them to death, because they do not know the custom of the god of the land.”
2 Kings 17:27
The king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Take there one of the priests whom you carried into exile from there, and let them go and live there, and let him instruct them in the custom of the god of the land.”
2 Kings 18:7
YHWH was with him; wherever he went out, he acted wisely. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
2 Kings 18:9
And it happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
2 Kings 18:11
The king of Assyria carried Israel into exile to Assyria and led them to Halah and to the Habor, the river of Gozan, and to the cities of the Medes,
2 Kings 18:13
In year fourteen of King Hezekiah Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
2 Kings 18:14
Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have sinned; withdraw from me; whatever you put on me I will bear.” The king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:16
At that time Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of YHWH and the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave them to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:17
The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large force to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem; they went up and came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.
2 Kings 18:19
The Rabshakeh said to them, “Say, please, to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What is this confidence in which you have trusted?
2 Kings 18:23
Now, make a deal, please, with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put riders of your own on them.
2 Kings 18:28
The Rabshakeh stood and cried out with a loud voice in the language of Judah, and spoke and said, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
2 Kings 18:30
And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in YHWH, saying, “YHWH will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
2 Kings 18:31
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: “Make peace with me and come out to me, and eat, each from his vine and each from his fig tree, and drink, each the water of his cistern,
2 Kings 18:33
Have the gods of the nations really delivered, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kings 19:4
Perhaps YHWH your Elohim will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to taunt the living Elohim, and will rebuke him for the words that YHWH your Elohim has heard; so lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
2 Kings 19:6
Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master: ‘Thus says YHWH: Do not fear because of the words that you have heard, with which the boys of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
2 Kings 19:8
The Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had set out from Lachish.
2 Kings 19:10
“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Do not let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
2 Kings 19:11
Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction; and will you be delivered?

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