Dict: smith - ASHUR

smith:

ASHUR - A>@ - (black), the posthumous son of Hezron by his wife Abiah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:24 kjv@1Chronicles:4:5) He became "father" or founder of the town of Tekoa. (B.C. 1658.)

ASHURITES, THE - A>@ - Only in (2 Samuel kjv@2:9) By some of the old interpreters the name is taken as meaning the Geshurites; but if we follow the Targum of Jonathan, "the Asherites" will denote the inhabitants of the whole of the country west of the Jordan above Jez-reel.

ASHURIM - A>@ - (steps), a tribe descended from Dedan, the grandson of Abraham. kjv@Genesis:26:3) Knobel considers them the same with the Asshur of kjv@Ezekiel:27:28) and connected with southern Arabia.