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# אַשּׁוּרִים

Biblical Hebrew

**Asshurim** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Asshurim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e9_5bc_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e8_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַשּׁוּרִם: n.pr.gent.pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e9_5bc_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e8_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent.pl. an Arab tribe traced back to Abraham & Keturah Gn 25:3 cf. Di.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Asshurites (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.3/#tree)

וְיָקְשָׁ֣ן יָלַ֔ד אֶת־שְׁבָ֖א וְאֶת־דְּדָ֑ן וּבְנֵ֣י דְדָ֔ן הָי֛וּ אַשּׁוּרִ֥ם וּלְטוּשִׁ֖ים וּלְאֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Jokshan he.fathered (et) Sheba and (et) Dedan and the.sons of.Dedan they.were Asshurites and Letushites and Leummites

*JPS 1917:* And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e9_5bc_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e8_5b4_5d9_5dd/): 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).