Ashur
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For other uses, see Ashur (disambiguation).
Ashur (Hebrew: אַשּׁוּר; Akkadian: Aššur), was the second son of Shem, the son of Noah. Ashur's brothers were Elam, Aram, Arpachshad and Lud.
The Hebrew text of Gen. 10:11 is somewhat ambiguous as to whether it was Ashur himself (eg. as reads the KJV), or Nimrod who built the cities of Nineveh, etc. in Assyria, since the name Ashur can refer to either the person or the country.
| Sons and Grandsons of Noah in Genesis 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sons of Shem | Elam | Ashur | Aram | Arpachshad | Lud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sons of Ham | Cush | Mizraim | Phut | Canaan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sons of Japheth | Gomer | Magog | Madai | Javan | Tubal | Meshech | Tiras | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ashur father of Tekoa (not the same person as above) also appears in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 2:24 as a descendant of Judah; he is the son of Hezron and Abaiah, and had two wives, Helah and Naarah, who each bore him a number of children.
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