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:
Zechariah 10:10: "also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into"
Zechariah 10:11: "of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away."
