Strong's Hebrew: 839. אֲשֻׁרִים (ashur or ashurim) -- perhaps boxwood (a kind of wood)

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Lexicon

ashur or ashurim: perhaps boxwood (a kind of wood)

Original Word: אֲשֻׁרִים
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: ashur or ashurim
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-oor')
Short Definition: boxwood

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from ashar
Definition
perhaps boxwood (a kind of wood)
NASB Translation
boxwood (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

תְּאַשּׁוּר noun feminine box-tree (on form compare Sta^{§ 267}) Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 60:13; Ezekiel 27:6 (compare above) a small evergreen tree about 20 feet high, growing on Lebanon, Bo Tristr^{Nat. Hist. Bib 339}, so ᵑ9 ᵑ7 RV. (Others sherbîn, a species of cedar distinguished by the smallness of its cones and the upward direction of its branches, compare Thes Rob-Ges.)

Strong's

Ashurite

Contracted for t'ashshuwr; the cedar tree or some other light elastic wood -- Ashurite.

see HEBREW t'ashshuwr