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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 - ‘Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - “Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:33 - “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria:

‘He shall not come into this city,
Nor shoot an arrow there,
Nor come before it with shield,
Nor build a siege mound against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 - Then the angel[fn] of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:37

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:37 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus says the Lord GOD:

“My people went down at first
Into Egypt to dwell there;
Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 - And now why take the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of Sihor?
Or why take the road to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the River?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36 - Why do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:17 - “Israel is like scattered sheep;
The lions have driven him away.
First the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:18 - Therefore thus says 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:28

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5 - “Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine;
And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - Thus she committed her harlotry with them,
All of them choice men of Assyria;
And with all for whom she lusted,
With all their idols, she defiled herself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:9 - “Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - “She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians,
Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - The Babylonians,
All the Chaldeans,
Pekod, Shoa, Koa,
All the Assyrians with them,
All of them desirable young men,
Governors and rulers,
Captains and men of renown,
All of them riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:23 - “Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad were your merchants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:3 - Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
With fine branches that shaded the forest,
And of high stature;
And its top was among the thick boughs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - “Assyria is there, and all her company,
With their graves all around her,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:13 - “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - “Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense—
They call to Egypt,
They go to Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:9 - For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey alone by itself;
Ephraim has hired lovers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3 - They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land,
But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:6 - The idol also shall be carried to Assyria
As a present for King Jareb.
Ephraim shall receive shame,
And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:5 - “He shall not return to the land of Egypt;
But the Assyrian shall be his king,
Because they refused to repent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - They shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt,
Like a dove from the land of Assyria.
And I will let them dwell in their houses,”
Says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:1 - “Ephraim feeds on the wind,
And pursues the east wind;
He daily increases lies and desolation.
Also they make a covenant with the Assyrians,
And oil is carried to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:3 - Assyria shall not save us,
We will not ride on horses,
Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands,
‘You are our gods.’
For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:5 - And this One shall be peace.

When the Assyrian comes into our land,
And when he treads in our palaces,
Then we will raise against him
Seven shepherds and eight princely men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6 - They shall waste with the sword the land of Assyria,
And the land of Nimrod at its entrances;
Thus He shall deliver us from the Assyrian,
When he comes into our land
And when he treads within our borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day they[fn] shall come to you
From Assyria and the fortified cities,[fn]
From the fortress[fn] to the River,[fn]
From sea to sea,
And mountain to mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:18 - Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria;
Your nobles rest in the dust.
Your people are scattered on the mountains,
And no one gathers them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 - And He will stretch out His hand against the north,
Destroy Assyria,
And make Nineveh a desolation,
As dry as the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - I will also bring them back from the land of Egypt,
And gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon,
Until no more room is found for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - He shall pass through the sea with affliction,
And strike the waves of the sea:
All the depths of the River[fn] shall dry up.
Then the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,
And the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

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