the Fourth Week of Advent
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #1650 - גְּשׁוּר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- Geshur or Geshurites = "proud beholder"
- a people
- a land in north Transjordania
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
1 of people, = הַגְּשׁוּרִי Joshua 13:13 compare 1 Chronicles 2:23.
2 of landמֶלֶךְ 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 Guthe ZPV xii. 1889,232f. between Gilead and Hermon, in Jaulân; according to Furrer ib. xiii. 1890,198 = the Ledjah, district east of Jaulân, with town Jisre; against him Guthe ib. 285 f.
גְּשׁוּר (“bridge,” Arab. جِسْرُ, Syriac ܓܺܝܫܳܪܐܳ), pr.n. Geshur, a region of Syria, subject to king Tolmai, whose daughter David took to wife, 2 Samuel 3:3, 13:37 15:8. From the words 1 Chronicles 2:23, it may be gathered that Geshur is to be sought in the neighbourhood of Gilead, and that the Geshurites are not different from the גְּשׁוּרִים, mentioned immediately under גְּשׁוּרִי.
