Asshur 0804 ## >Ashshuwr {ash-shoor'}; or >Ashshur {ash-shoor'};

apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the

second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country

occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire: --

{Asshur}, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838. [ql

Asshurim 0805 ## >Ashuwriy {ash-oo-ree'}; or >Ashshuwriy {ash-

shoo-ree'}; from a patrial word of the same form as 804; an

Ashurite (collectively) or inhabitant of Ashur, a district in

Palestine: -- {Asshurim}, Ashurites. [ql

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