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אַשּׁוּר proper name [or a people and territorry] Asshur, Assyria (Assyrian Aššur , land & city DlPa 252 COT on Gen 2:14 Persian Athura , Syriac [untranscribed source text 436]; on the connection with name of god Ašur, & with √ אשׁר = ישׁר good, gracious, compare COTl.c.; see also JenZA, 1886, 1 f. Schrib. 209 f. Nöib. 268 f.)
1.
Asshur as person, 2nd son of Shem Gen 10:22 (
P
, in table of nations) 1Chr 1:17.
2.
people of Asshur (often as invading army & even world-power) Num 24:22; Num 24:24 (poem of Balaam)
Hos 12:2; Hos 14:4; Isa 10:5; Isa 14:25;
Isa 19:23
(twice in verse); Isa 19:24; Isa 19:25; Isa 23:13; Isa 30:31; Isa 31:8; Isa 52:4; Lam 5:6; Ezek 23:5; Ezek 27:23; Ezek 32:22
(here feminine) Zech 10:11; Ps 83:9 perhaps read גְּשׁוּר, compare 2Sam 2:9 below
אֲשׁוּרִי; or (if Ps 83 be late) regard אַשּׁוּר (like עֲמָלֵק
ib.) as used because of ancient significance; sometimes personified as one Isa 10:5; Ezek 31:3 (but
strike out Co q. v.), compare also Mic 5:4; Mic 5:5; Zeph 2:13
׳
מַחֲנֵה א
2Kgs 19:32
= Isa
37:36
׳
בְּנֵי א
Ezek 16:28
; Ezek 23:7
; Ezek 23:9
; Ezek
23:12; Ezek 23:23.
3.
land of Assyria
Gen 2:14; Gen 10:11;
Hos 5:13; Hos 7:11; Hos 8:9; Hos 9:3; Hos 10:6; Isa 11:11;
Isa 11:16;
Isa 19:23;
Jer 2:18; Jer 2:36; Mic 7:12; Zech 10:10
אַשּׁ֫וּרָה
Gen 25:18;
Isa 19:23;
2Kgs 15:29
; 2Kgs 17:6
; 2Kgs
17:23; 2Kgs 18:11
אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר
Isa 7:18; Isa 27:13;
Hos 11:11;
Mic 5:5.
4. especially מֶלֶךְ
אַשּׁוּר
Isa 8:4; Isa 10:12; Isa 20:1; Isa 20:4; Isa 20:6 (probably
gloss Isa 7:17;
Isa 7:20; Isa 8:7) 2Kgs 15:19 +
41 t. 2 Kings; 14 t. Isa 36-38; 1Chr 5:6 (אַשֻּׁר) + 13 t. Chronicles; also Jer 50:17; Jer 50:18; Nah 3:18; Ezra 4:2 (only Ezra 6:22 of Persian or any king
not strictly Assyrian); note also ׳
הַמֶּלֶךְ א
Isa 36:8; Isa 36:16 (
׳
א perhaps gloss, compare Di who holds same view as to 2Kgs 18:23;
2Kgs 18:31);
׳
מַלְכֵי א
2Kgs 19:11;
2Kgs 19:17 =
Isa 37:11;
Isa 37:18;
2Chr 28:16;
2Chr 30:6; Neh 9:32.