Bible Names

Abishur: meaning of the name

Abishur means “father of the wall; father of uprightness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Abishur in Hebrew and Greek

אֲבִישׁוּר H51

ʼĂbîyshûwr (ab-ee-shoor') — Abishur, an Israelite

from H1 (אָב) and H7791 (שׁוּר); father of (the) wall (i.e. perhaps mason);

Who named Abishur in the Bible

Abishur in Scripture

“Abishur” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:28

    And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:29

    And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.