Ashhur
Ashhur
ASHHUR (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Ashur).The father of Tekoa (1Ch 2:24; 1Ch 4:5).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Ashhur
ashur (, ashhur, the King James Version Ashur): The father of Tekoa (1Ch 2:24; 1Ch 4:5), probably the founder of the village. The original meaning of the name is the man of Horus, Ashurites (, ha-‘ashur). This name occurs in the list of Ish-bosheth’s subjects (2Sa 2:9). The Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate (Jerome’s Latin Bible, 390-405 ad) versions read , ha-geshur, 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 (2Sa 3:3; 2Sa 13:37). Furthermore Geshur was too far away from the rest of Ishbosheth’s territory. A more consistent reading is , ha-‘asher, as given in the Targum of Jonathan and accepted by Khler, Klost, Kirkpatrick and Budde, those of the house of Asher (compare Jdg 1:32). The term would, then, denote the country to the West of Jordan above Jezreel.