Lexicon Geshur: a territory East of the upper Jordan, also inhab. of Geshur Original Word: גְּשׁוּרPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Geshur Phonetic Spelling: (ghesh-oor') Short Definition: Geshur NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiona territory E. of the upper Jordan, also inhab. of Geshur NASB TranslationGeshur (9).
Brown-Driver-Briggs גְּשׁוּר proper name, masculine ( bridge ? or land of bridges ? compare Wetzst Hauran, 82). 1 of people, = הַגְּשׁוּרִי Joshua 13:13 compare 1 Chronicles 2:23. 2 of land מֶלֶךְ גְּשׁוּר 2 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 13:37 compare 2 Samuel 13:38 (but text in disorder compare ᵐ5 We Dr) 2 Samuel 14:32; 2 Samuel 15:8 בַּאֲרָם ׳בִּגְ 1 Chronicles 3:2, גְּשׁ֫וּרָה 2 Samuel 14:23; a territory east of the upper Jordan, exact limits unknown; according to GutheZPV xii. 1889, 232 f. between Gilead and Hermon, in Jaulân; according to Furrerib. xiii. 1890, 198 = the Ledjah, district east of Jaulân, with town Jisre; against him Gutheib. 285 f.
Strong's Geshur, Geshurite From an unused root (meaning to join); bridge; Geshur, a district of Syria -- Geshur, Geshurite. |
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