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# אַסִּיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H617

**Assir** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Assir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/617/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַסִּיר²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/617/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Korah Ex 6:24 1 Ch 6:7; called son of Ebiasaph v 8, 22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Assir (2); \[were\] Assir (1); of Assir (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.22/#tree)

בֶּן־תַּ֙חַת֙ בֶּן־אַסִּ֔יר בֶּן־אֶבְיָסָ֖ף בֶּן־קֹֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Tahath the.son of.Assir the.son of.Ebiasaph the.son of.Korah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah;

[1 Chronicles 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.7/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י קְהָ֑ת עַמִּינָדָ֣ב בְּנ֔וֹ קֹ֥רַח בְּנ֖וֹ אַסִּ֥יר בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Kohath \[were\].Amminadab son his Korah son his Assir son his

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/617.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/617/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).