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Lexicon :: Strong's H839 - 'ăšur

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אֲשֻׁר
Transliteration
'ăšur
Pronunciation
ash-oor'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 183e

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: אשור (Gesenius) אשר (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

אֲשֻׁר ʼăshur, ash-oor'; contracted for H8391; the cedar tree or some other light elastic wood:—Ashurite.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's H839 in the following manner: Ashurites (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's H839 in the following manner: Ashurites (1x).

  1. perhaps boxwood (a kind of wood)[1]


1. Edited by BLB [An error was made giving the definition as "one from the tribe of Asher"]

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲשֻׁר ʼăshur, ash-oor'; contracted for H8391; the cedar tree or some other light elastic wood:—Ashurite.
STRONGS H839: Abbreviations
† אֲשֻׁרִים, in בַּת א׳ Ezekiel 27:6 (read בִּתְאַשֻּׁרִים with box-wood Bo Hi MV Co and others, compare following)

† תְּאַשּׁוּר noun feminine box-tree (on form compare Sta§ 267) [H8391 Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 60:13]; Ezekiel 27:6 (compare above) a small evergreen tree about 20 feet high, growing on Lebanon, Bo TristrNat. Hist. Bib 339, so Vulgate Targum RV. (Others sherbîn, a species of cedar distinguished by the smallness of its cones and the upward direction of its branches, compare Thes Rob-Ges.)
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezekiel

27:6; 27:6

H839

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Strong's Number H839 matches the Hebrew אֲשֻׁר ('ăšur),
which occurs 1 times in 1 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:6 - Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of cypress wood[fn] from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
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