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HebrewH1650Noun

גְּשׁוּר

ge.shur

9Occurrences
H1650Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Geshur, a district of Syria

from an unused root (meaning to join); bridge;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Geshur or Geshurites = "proud beholder" a land in north Transjordania Also named: ge.shu.ri (*גְּשׁוּרִי *"Geshurite" H1651)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

גְּשׁוּר appears 9 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
6
1 Chronicles
2
Joshua
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:23BSB

But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 3:2BSB

the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;

2 Samuel 13:37BSB

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

2 Samuel 13:38BSB

After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

2 Samuel 14:23BSB

So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

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