Bible Names

Assir: meaning of the name

Assir means “prisoner; fettered.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Assir in Hebrew and Greek

אַסִּיר H617

ʼAççîyr (as-sere') — Assir, the name of two Israelites

the same as H616 (אַסִּיר); prisoner;

People named Assir in the Bible

Assir in Scripture

“Assir” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Exodus 6:24

    And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:17

    And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:22

    The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:23

    Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:37

    The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,