name · 1 person and 1 place

Asshur

1 person and 1 place in the registry answer to the name Asshur. One of them is named otherwise and called Asshur in the text.

Asshur is named far more often than the others together, so a search for the bare name lands there rather than here.

01 — Candidates

Which Asshur

Ordered by how often the text names each one, the entities called Asshur before those that answer to it. Where two read the same, the registry says no more than that — the first reference is what separates them.

  1. Asshurpersonholds /people/asshur/

    First named in Genesis 10:22 · 2 verses

    Asshur was a son of Shem and is considered the father of the Assyrians (<ref="Gen.10.22; 1Ch.1.17">Gen.10.22; 1Ch.1.17</ref>).STEPBible TIPNR

  2. Assyriaplace

    First named in Genesis 2:14 · 136 verses

    Assyria, a major Mesopotamian empire, frequently mentioned in the Old Testament as an adversary of Israel and Judah.STEPBible TIPNR

    Called Asshur in the text; named Assyria.

02 — Elsewhere

Every one of them, and the rest

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