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title: אֲשׁוּרִי — an Ashurite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲשׁוּרִי (805), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: an Ashurite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲשׁוּרִי

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«אֲשׁוּרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **an Ashurite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 805 · **BDB:** אֲשׁוּרִי

### Glosses

Ashurite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

an Ashurite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/805/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/805/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. הָא׳ as n.coll. 2 S 2:9, but read perhaps הַגְּשׁוּרִי q.v., cf. also We Dr; Köh Klo al. read הָאָֽשֵׁרִי \& comp. Ju 1:32.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲשׁוּרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/805/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 2:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.9/)

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וַיַּמְלִכֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־הַגִּלְעָ֔ד וְאֶל־הָאֲשׁוּרִ֖י וְאֶֽל־יִזְרְעֶ֑אל וְעַל־אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ וְעַל־בִּנְיָמִ֔ן וְעַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כֻּלֹּֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he made.him.king to (the) Gilead and to the Ashurite\[s\] and to Jezreel and over Ephraim and over Benjamin and over Israel of.it all

*JPS 1917:* and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

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