Ashhur

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ash´ur (אשׁחוּר, ashḥūr, the King James Version Ashur):

The “father of Tekoa” (1 Chronicles 2:24; 1 Chronicles 4:5), probably the founder of the village. The original meaning of the name is the “man of Horus,” Ashurites (האשׁורי, hā-'ashūrī). This name occurs in the list of Ish-Bosheth's subjects (2 Samuel 2:9). The Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 AD) versions read הגּשׁוּרי, ha-geshūrī, “the Geshurites,” designating the small kingdom to the South or Southeast of Damascus. This reading, though adopted by Ewald, Thenius and Wellhausen, is untenable, for during the reign of Ish-Bosheth Geshur was ruled by its own king Talmai, whose daughter was married to David (2 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 13:37). Furthermore Geshur was too far away from the rest of Ishbosheth's territory. A more consistent reading is האשׁרי, hā-'āshērī, as given in the Targum of Jonathan and accepted by Köhler, Klost, Kirkpatrick and Budde, “those of the house of Asher” (compare Judges 1:32). The term would, then, denote the country to the West of Jordan above Jezreel.