Strong’s
H1650Proper name, a place9 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Joshua 13:13גְּשׁוּר
but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.
- 2 Samuel 3:3גְּשׁוּר
his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
- 1 Chronicles 2:23גְּשׁוּר
But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
גְּשׁוּר n.pr.m. (bridge? or land of bridges?).
1. of people
2. of land
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.