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# assyrian

«assyrian» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with ancient Assyria, a powerful empire in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Assyrian); noun (an Assyrian, Assyrians; Assyrian — the language)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (history) Assyrian means to do with ancient Assyria, a powerful empire in Mesopotamia (today mostly northern Iraq), with cities like Nineveh and Assur, strongest about 900–600 BC. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#m1)

2) An Assyrian is a person of ancient Assyria. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#m2)

3) Assyrians today are a people of the Middle East and around the world, mostly Christians, who speak Neo-Aramaic (also called Assyrian or Syriac). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#m3)

4) (Bible) In the Bible the Assyrians conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel, and Jonah was sent to preach in their city Nineveh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history (Mesopotamia, cuneiform writing, winged bull statues, King Ashurbanipal's library), Bible lessons (Jonah and Nineveh, Isaiah), and in learning about Middle Eastern peoples today.

### examples

- The Assyrian king lived in a palace at Nineveh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#x1)
- The British Museum has huge Assyrian stone carvings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#x2)
- Assyrian soldiers had iron weapons and chariots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#x3)
- In the Bible, Jonah was sent to the great Assyrian city of Nineveh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#x4)
- Assyrian scribes wrote in cuneiform on clay tablets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#x5)
- My neighbour's family are Assyrians from Iraq. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#x6)
- Many Assyrian Christians celebrate Easter with special bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/#x7)

### note

Written with a capital A. Do not confuse with «Syrian» (from modern Syria), though the names may be related. BC dates count backwards: 700 BC is earlier than 600 BC.

### In the corpora

- [The Assyrians built a strong, feared empire with great palaces at Nineveh decorated with stone pictures of lion hunts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/15/)
- [And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.576/)
- [Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.580/)
- [He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.158/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assyrian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assyrian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.