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אַשּׁוּר

Ashshur

ash-shoor'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼAshshûwr

Ashshur, the second son of Shem

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire

Rendered in the KJV as

Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See H838 (אָשֻׁר).

  • 151
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 17 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 38
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 151 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 38

  • אַשּׁ֔וּר31
  • אַשּׁ֖וּר20
  • אַשּׁ֑וּר16
  • אַשּֽׁוּר׃14
  • אַשּׁוּר֙13
  • אַשּׁ֛וּר6
  • אַשּׁ֥וּר3
  • אַשּׁ֜וּר3
  • אַשּׁ֗וּר3
  • אַשּׁ֣וּר׀3
  • אַשּׁ֑וּרָה3
  • אַשּׁ֤וּר2

and 26 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 12

  • Assyria128
  • Assyria towards5
  • from Assyria5
  • Asshur3
  • and Asshur2
  • and Assyria2
  • and from Assyria1
  • and in Assyria1
  • and to Assyria1
  • Asshur towards1
  • in Assyria1
  • to Assyria1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 6

  • proper noun (a name)131
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)7
  • proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)6
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)3
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNpl · 131
  • HR/Npl · 7
  • HNpl/Sd · 6
  • HC/R/Npl · 3
  • HC/Npl · 2
  • HC/Npm · 2

All 151, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

2 Kings carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis4 occurrences
Numbers2 occurrences
2 Kings49 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles13 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Psalms1 occurrence
Isaiah44 occurrences
Jeremiah4 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel9 occurrences
Hosea9 occurrences
Micah4 occurrences
Nahum1 occurrence
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah2 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).