Bible Names

Ashur: meaning of the name

Ashur means “who is happy; or walks; or looks.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ashur in Hebrew and Greek

אַשְׁחוּר H806

ʼAshchûwr (ash-khoor') — Ashchur, an Israelite

probably from H7835 (שָׁחַר); black;

Who named Ashur in the Bible

Ashur in Scripture

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

  • 1 Chronicles 2:24

    And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb–ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:5

    And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.