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HebrewH1651Noun

גְּשׁוּרִי

ge.shu.ri

6Occurrences
H1651Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Geshurite (also collectively) or inhabitants of Geshur

patrial from H1650 (גְּשׁוּר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Group of ge.shur (*גְּשׁוּר *"Geshur" H1650) § Geshuri or Geshurites 1) inhabitants of Geshur 2) a tribe in south Palestine of or near the Philistines

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

גְּשׁוּרִי appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
4
1 Samuel
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 27:8BSB

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

Deuteronomy 3:14BSB

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.

Joshua 12:5BSB

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Joshua 13:2BSB

This is the land that remains:All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

Joshua 13:11BSB

also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.