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Lexicon :: Strong's H804 - 'aššûr

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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 3 / 3 (Isa 37:11–Zec 10:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria H804 have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria H804 have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 - Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, H804 He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 - Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians H804 a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:37 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria H804 departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: H804 and I will defend this city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian H804 oppressed them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 - And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, H804 to drink the waters of the river?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36 - Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:17 - Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria H804 hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:18 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, H804 to be satisfied with bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:28 - Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, H804 because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5 - And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians H804 her neighbours,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, H804 and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:9 - Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, H804 upon whom she doted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She doted upon the Assyrians H804 her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians H804 with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:23 - Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, H804 and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:3 - Behold, the Assyrian H804 was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - Asshur H804 is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:13 - When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, H804 and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:9 - For they are gone up to Assyria, H804 a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3 - They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:6 - It shall be also carried unto Assyria H804 for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:5 - He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian H804 shall be his king, because they refused to return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: H804 and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:1 - Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, H804 and oil is carried into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:3 - Asshur H804 shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:5 - And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian H804 shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6 - And they shall waste the land of Assyria H804 with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, H804 when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, H804 and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:18 - Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: H804 thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; H804 and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; H804 and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria H804 shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

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