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Strong's #1650: Gshuwr (pronounced ghesh-oor')

from an unused root (meaning to join); bridge; Geshur, a district of Syria:--Geshur, Geshurite.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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geshûr

Geshur or Geshurites = "proud beholder"

1) a people

2) a land in north Transjordania

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from an unused root (meaning to join)



Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Joshua 13:13: "the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites"
2 Samuel 3:3: "the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;"
2 Samuel 13:37: "the son of Ammihud, of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every"
2 Samuel 13:38: "So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three"
2 Samuel 14:23: "So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom"
2 Samuel 14:32: "to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there"
2 Samuel 15:8: "vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, If the LORD"
1 Chronicles 2:23: "And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from"
1 Chronicles 3:2: "the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:"









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