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Lexicon :: Strong's H804 - 'aššûr

Aa
אַשּׁוּר
Transliteration
'aššûr
Pronunciation
ash-shoor'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently from אָשַׁר (H833) (in the sense of successful)
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TWOT Reference: 176

Strong’s Definitions

אַשּׁוּר ʼAshshûwr, ash-shoor'; or אַשֻּׁר ʼAshshur; apparently from H833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire:—Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See H838.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 151x

The KJV translates Strong's H804 in the following manner: Assyria (118x), Assyrian (19x), Asshur (8x), Assyrian (with H1121) (5x), Assur (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 151x
The KJV translates Strong's H804 in the following manner: Assyria (118x), Assyrian (19x), Asshur (8x), Assyrian (with H1121) (5x), Assur (1x).

  1. Asshur or Assyria = "a step"

    proper masculine noun

    1. the second son of Shem, eponymous ancestor of the Assyrians

    2. the people of Assyria

      proper locative noun

    3. the nation, Assyria

    4. the land, Assyria or Asshur

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַשּׁוּר ʼAshshûwr, ash-shoor'; or אַשֻּׁר ʼAshshur; apparently from H833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire:—Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See H838.
STRONGS H804: Abbreviations
אַשּׁוּר proper name, of a people & territory Asshur, Assyria (Assyrian Aššur, land & city DlPa 252 COT on Genesis 2:14; Persian Athura, Syriac bdb007804; 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 Genesis 10:22 (P, in table of nations) 1 Chronicles 1:17.
2. people of Asshur (often as invading army & even world-power) Numbers 24:22, 24 (poem of Balaam) Hosea 12:2; Hosea 14:4; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 14:25; Isaiah 19:23 (twice in verse); Isaiah 19:24, 25; Isaiah 23:13; Isaiah 30:31; Isaiah 31:8; Isaiah 52:4; Lamentations 5:6; Ezekiel 23:5; Ezekiel 27:23; Ezekiel 32:22 (here feminine) Zechariah 10:11; Psalm 83:9 perhaps read גְּשׁוּר, compare 2 Samuel 2:9 below אֲשׁוּרִי; or (if Psalm 83 be late) regard אַשּׁוּר (like עֲמָלֵק ib.) as used because of ancient significance; sometimes personified as one Isaiah 10:5; Ezekiel 31:3 (but strike out Co which see), compare also Micah 5:4; Micah 5:5; Zephaniah 2:13; מַחֲנֵה א׳ 2 Kings 19:32 = Isaiah 37:36; בְּנֵי א׳ Ezekiel 16:28; Ezekiel 23:7, 9, 12, 23.
3. land of Assyria Genesis 2:14; Genesis 10:11; Hosea 5:13; Hosea 7:11; Hosea 8:9; Hosea 9:3; Hosea 10:6; Isaiah 11:11, 16; Isaiah 19:23; Jeremiah 2:18, 36; Micah 7:12; Zechariah 10:10; אַשּׁ֫וּרָה Genesis 25:18; Isaiah 19:23; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6, 23; 2 Kings 18:11; אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר Isaiah 7:18; Isaiah 27:13; Hosea 11:11; Micah 5:5.
4. especially מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר Isaiah 8:4; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 20:1, 4, 6 (probably gloss Isaiah 7:17, 20; Isaiah 8:7) 2 Kings 15:19 + 41 times 2 Kings; + 14 times Isaiah 36-38; 1 Chronicles 5:6 (אַשֻּׁר) + 13 times Chronicles; also Jeremiah 50:17, 18; Nahum 3:18; Ezra 4:2; (only Ezra 6:22 of Persian or any king not strictly Assyrian); note also הַמֶּלֶךְ א׳ Isaiah 36:8, 16 (א׳ perhaps gloss, compare Di who holds same view as to 2 Kings 18:23, 31); מַלְכֵי א׳ 2 Kings 19:11, 17 = Isaiah 37:11, 18; 2 Chronicles 28:16; 30:6; Nehemiah 9:32.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:14; 2:14; 10:11; 10:22; 25:18

Numbers

24:22; 24:24

2 Samuel

2:9

2 Kings

15:19; 15:29; 17:6; 17:23; 18:11; 18:23; 18:31; 19:11; 19:17; 19:32

1 Chronicles

1:17; 5:6

2 Chronicles

28:16; 30:6

Ezra

4:2; 6:22

Nehemiah

9:32

Psalms

83; 83:9

Isaiah

7:17; 7:18; 7:20; 8:4; 8:7; 10:5; 10:5; 10:12; 11:11; 11:16; 14:25; 19:23; 19:23; 19:23; 19:24; 19:25; 20:1; 20:4; 20:6; 23:13; 27:13; 30:31; 31:8; 36:8; 36:16; 37:11; 37:18; 37:36; 52:4

Jeremiah

2:18; 2:36; 50:17; 50:18

Lamentations

5:6

Ezekiel

16:28; 23:5; 23:7; 23:9; 23:12; 23:23; 27:23; 31:3; 32:22

Hosea

5:13; 7:11; 8:9; 9:3; 10:6; 11:11; 12:2; 14:4

Micah

5:4; 5:5; 5:5; 7:12

Nahum

3:18

Zephaniah

2:13

Zechariah

10:10; 10:11

H804

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Strong's Number H804 matches the Hebrew אַשּׁוּר ('aššûr),
which occurs 151 times in 138 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 2:14–1Ch 5:26)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14 - And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:22 - These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:22 - But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24 - But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:19 - In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:20 - And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:29 - In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:7 - So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8 - And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:9 - And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 - Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:18 - *** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:3 - Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:5 - Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:23 - Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:27 - Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:7 - And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:9 - Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11 - And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:14 - And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to Lachish, to the king of Assyria, saying, I have done wrong; give up attacking me, and whatever you put on me I will undergo. And the payment he was to make was fixed by the king of Assyria at three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:16 - And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:19 - And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23 - And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:28 - Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:33 - Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6 - And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:8 - So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah, for it had come to his ears that he had gone away from Lachish.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10 - This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11 - No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:20 - Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32 - For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:36 - So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:17 - The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:6 - Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, took away as a prisoner: he was chief of the Reubenites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:26 - And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of Pul, king of Assyria, and of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who took them away as prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

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