Shur: meaning of the name

Shur in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Shur

• Shur

Shur in Scripture

“Shur” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

• Genesis 16:7

  And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

• Genesis 20:1

  And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

• Genesis 25:18

  And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

• Exodus 15:22

  So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

• 1 Samuel 15:7

  And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.