Dict: smith - SHUR

smith:

SHUR - S>@ - (a wall), a place just without the eastern border of Egypt. Shur is first mentioned in the narrative of Haggar’s flight from Sarah. kjv@Genesis:16:7) Abraham afterward "dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar." kjv@Genesis:20:1) It is also called Ethami. The wilderness of Shur was entered in the Israelites after they had crossed the Red Sea. kjv@Exodus:15:22-23) It was also called the wilderness of Etham. kjv@Numbers:33:8) Shur may have been a territory town east of the ancient head of the Red Sea; and from its being spoken of as a limit, it was probably the last Arabian town before entering Egypt.