Bible word study

Ashshuwr (Strong’s H804): Meaning in the Bible

Ashshuwr (אַשּׁוּר) is the Hebrew (proper name) word numbered H804 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire. In the King James Bible it is translated Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See H838..

• Original wordאַשּׁוּר
• TransliterationʼAshshûwr
• Pronunciationash-shoor'
• Part of speechproper noun (masculine) (n-pr-m n-pr-loc)
• Strong’s numberH804
• LanguageHebrew (proper name)

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or אַשֻּׁר; apparently from H833 (in the sense of successful);

How the King James Bible translates it

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Ashshuwr in the original Hebrew (proper name) lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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