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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 2 / 3 (2Ch 28:16–Isa 37:10)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:16 - At that time King Ahaz sent to the [fn]kings of Assyria H804 for help.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:20 - So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria H804 came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21 - Although Ahaz took a portion out of the house of the LORD and out of the palace of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria, H804 it did not help him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:6 - The [fn]couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, “O sons of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from the [fn]hand of the kings of Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After these [fn]acts of faithfulness Sennacherib king of Assyria H804 came and invaded Judah and besieged the fortified cities, and [fn]thought to break into them for himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:4 - So many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream which flowed [fn]through the region, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria H804 come and find abundant water?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:7 - “Be strong and courageous, do not fear or be dismayed because of the king of Assyria H804 nor because of all the horde that is with him; for the one with us is greater than the one with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:9 - After this Sennacherib king of Assyria H804 sent his servants to Jerusalem while he was [fn]besieging Lachish with all his forces with him, against Hezekiah king of Judah and against all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:10 - “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, H804 ‘On what are you trusting that you are remaining in Jerusalem under siege?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - ‘Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give yourselves over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the [fn]hand of the king of Assyria”? H804

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. H804 So he returned [fn]in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:22 - So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria H804 and from the hand of all others, and [fn]guided them on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria H804 against them, and they captured Manasseh with [fn]hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, H804 who brought us up here.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:22 - And they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the LORD had caused them to rejoice, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria H804 toward them to [fn]encourage them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32 - “Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness,
Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You,
Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people,
From the days of the kings of Assyria H804 to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:8 - Assyria H804 also has joined with them;
They have become [fn]a help to the children of Lot. [fn]Selah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17 - “The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria.” H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18 - In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the [fn]remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 - In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the [fn]Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), H804 the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.” H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:7 - “Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the [fn]Euphrates,
Even the king of Assyria H804 and all his glory;
And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:5 - Woe to Assyria, H804 the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:12 - So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will [fn]punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria H804 and the pomp of [fn]his haughtiness.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:24 - Therefore thus says the Lord [fn]GOD of hosts, “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian H804 [fn]who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover the second time with His hand
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From Assyria, H804 Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the [fn]islands of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - And there will be a highway from Assyria H804
For the remnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - to break Assyria H804 in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:23 - In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, H804 and the Assyrians H804 will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, H804 and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:24 - In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, H804 a blessing in the midst of the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:25 - whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria H804 the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:1 - In the year that the [fn]commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria H804 sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so the king of Assyria H804 will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the [fn]shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; H804 and we, how shall we escape?’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria H804 appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:13 - It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria H804 and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:31 - For at the voice of the LORD Assyria H804 will be terrified,
When He strikes with the rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - And the Assyrian H804 will fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of man will devour him.
So he will [fn]not escape the sword,
And his young men will become forced laborers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria H804 came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king of Assyria H804 sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the [fn]fuller’s field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4 - Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, H804 “What is this confidence that you [fn]have?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8 - “Now therefore, [fn]come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, H804 and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 - Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us, this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for thus says the king of Assyria, H804 ‘[fn]Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - ‘Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - ‘Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria H804 has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6 - Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria H804 have blasphemed Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:8 - Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria H804 fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that [fn]the king had left Lachish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of [fn]Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” H804

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