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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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, you have heard what the kings of Assyria H804 have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be [fn]spared?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - “Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria H804 have devastated all the countries and their lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 - Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, H804

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:33

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33 - “Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, H804 ‘He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a siege ramp against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 - Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; H804 and when [fn]men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were [fn]dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:37 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria H804 departed and [fn]returned home and lived at Nineveh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - “I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; H804 and I will defend this city.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian H804 oppressed them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 - “But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of the [fn]Nile?
Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria, H804
To drink the waters of the [fn]Euphrates?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36 - “Why do you go around so much
Changing your way?
Also, you will be put to shame by Egypt
As you were put to shame by Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:17 - “Israel is a scattered [fn]flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, H804 and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:18 - “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - We have [fn]submitted to Egypt and Assyria H804 [fn]to get enough bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:28 - “Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians H804 because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5 - “Oholah played the harlot [fn]while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, H804 her neighbors,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - “She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest [fn]men of Assyria; H804 and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:9 - “Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the [fn]Assyrians, H804 after whom she lusted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - “She lusted after the [fn]Assyrians, H804 governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the [fn]Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the [fn]Assyrians H804 with them; desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and [fn]men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:23 - “Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur H804 and Chilmad traded with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:3 - ‘Behold, Assyria H804 was a cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And [fn]very high,
And its top was among the [fn]clouds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - “Assyria H804 is there and all her company; [fn]her graves are round about [fn]her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:13 - When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his [fn]wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria H804
And sent to [fn]King Jareb.
But he is unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your [fn]wound.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without [fn]sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. H804

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:9 - For they have gone up to Assyria, H804
Like a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has hired [fn]lovers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3 - They will not remain in the LORD’S land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria H804 they will eat unclean food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:6 - The thing itself will be carried to Assyria H804
As tribute to [fn]King Jareb;
Ephraim will [fn]be seized with shame
And Israel will be ashamed of its own counsel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:5 - [fn]They will not return to the land of Egypt;
But Assyria H804—he will be [fn]their king
Because they refused to return to Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - They will come trembling like birds from Egypt
And like doves from the land of Assyria; H804
And I will settle them in their houses, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:1 - [fn]Ephraim feeds on wind,
And pursues the east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, [fn]he makes a covenant with Assyria, H804
And oil is carried to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:3 - “Assyria H804 will not save us,
We will not ride on horses;
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the [fn]orphan finds mercy.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:5 - This One will be our peace.
When the Assyrian H804 invades our land,
When he tramples on our [fn]citadels,
Then we will raise against him
Seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6 - They will shepherd the land of Assyria H804 with the sword,
The land of Nimrod at its entrances;
And He will deliver us from the Assyrian H804
When he attacks our land
And when he tramples our territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - It will be a day when [fn]they will come to you
From Assyria H804 and the cities of Egypt,
From Egypt even to the [fn]Euphrates,
Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:18 - Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; H804
Your nobles are lying down.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to regather 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 He will make Nineveh a desolation,
Parched like the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - “I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
And gather them from Assyria; H804
And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon
[fn]Until no room can be found for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - “And they will pass through the sea of distress
And He will strike the waves in the sea,
So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
And the pride of Assyria H804 will be brought down
And the scepter of Egypt will depart.

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