Lexical Summary ashur or ashurim: perhaps boxwood (a kind of wood) Original Word: אֲשֻׁרTransliteration: ashur or ashurim Phonetic Spelling: (ash-oor') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: perhaps boxwood (a kind of wood) Meaning: the cedar tree, some other light elastic wood Strong's Concordance Ashurite Contracted for t'ashshuwr; the cedar tree or some other light elastic wood -- Ashurite. see HEBREW t'ashshuwr Brown-Driver-Briggs H839. ashur or ashurim תְּאַשּׁוּר noun feminine box-tree (on form compare Sta§ 267) Isaiah 41:19; 60:13; Ezekiel 27:6 (compare above) a small evergreen tree about 20 feet high, growing on Lebanon, Bo TristrNat. Hist. Bib 339, so ᵑ7 ᵑ9 RV. (Others sherbîn, a species of cedar distinguished by the smallness of its cones and the upward direction of its branches, compare Thes Rob-Ges.) |