אַשּׁוּר
ʼAshshûwr(ash-shoor')
“Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire”
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Definition
From Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (1906)
Strong’s Definition
Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
Translated in KJV as
AsshurAssurAssyriaAssyrians. See H838 (אָשֻׁר).
Etymology
or אַשֻּׁר; apparently from H833 (אָשַׁר) (in the sense of successful);
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