Strong's #804: 'Ashshuwr (pronounced ash-shoor')
or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}; apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire:--Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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'ashshûr
Asshur or Assyria = "a step"
1) the second son of Shem, eponymous ancestor of the Assyrians (noun proper masculine)
2) the people of Assyria (noun proper masculine)
3) the nation, Assyria (noun proper locative)
4) the land, Assyria or Asshur (noun proper locative)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: apparently from H833 (in the sense of successful)
Usage:
This word is used 152 times:
Genesis 2:14: "that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates."
Genesis 10:11: "that land went forth Asshur, and built and the city"
Genesis 10:22: "The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram."
Genesis 25:18: "that is before Egypt, toward Assyria: and he died in"
Numbers 24:22: "the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive."
Numbers 24:24: "shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber,"
2 Kings 15:19: "And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem"
2 Kings 15:20: "of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed"
2 Kings 15:20: "to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there"
2 Kings 15:29: "came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah,"
2 Kings 15:29: "the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria."
2 Kings 16:7: "to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, I am thy servant and thy son:"
2 Kings 16:8: "and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria."
2 Kings 16:9: "And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up"
2 Kings 16:9: "hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up Damascus, and took"
2 Kings 16:10: "to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that"
2 Kings 16:18: "of the LORD for the king of Assyria."
2 Kings 17:3: "him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became and gave"
2 Kings 17:4: "And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers"
2 Kings 17:4: "no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria"
2 Kings 17:4: "as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison."
2 Kings 17:5: "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria,"
2 Kings 17:6: "year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took and carried Israel away"
2 Kings 17:6: "and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah"
2 Kings 17:23: "the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto"
2 Kings 17:24: "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava,"
2 Kings 17:26: "Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed,"
2 Kings 17:27: "Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one"
2 Kings 18:7: "whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled of Assyria, and served him not."
2 Kings 18:9: "of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged"
2 Kings 18:11: "And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put"
2 Kings 18:11: "did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put and in Habor by the river"
2 Kings 18:13: "of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria against all"
2 Kings 18:14: "sent to the king of Assyria saying, I have offended; return"
2 Kings 18:14: "thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah"
2 Kings 18:16: "had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria."
2 Kings 18:17: "And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh"
2 Kings 18:19: "the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein"
2 Kings 18:23: "to my lord the king of Assyria, thee two thousand horses, if"
2 Kings 18:28: "of the great king, the king of Assyria:"
2 Kings 18:30: "city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria."
2 Kings 18:31: "thus saith of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out"
2 Kings 18:33: "his land out of the hand of Assyria?"
2 Kings 19:4: "whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living"
2 Kings 19:6: "which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed"
2 Kings 19:8: "and found the king of Assyria warring Libnah: for"
2 Kings 19:10: "be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria."
2 Kings 19:11: "what the kings of Assyria to all lands, by destroying them utterly:"
2 Kings 19:17: "Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and"
2 Kings 19:20: "me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard."
