Hebrew word · H5809

עַזּוּר

'azur

Azzur

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Neh.10.17

§ Azur or Azzur = "he that assists"

1) a Benjamite of Gibeon, father of the false prophet Hananiah

2) father of Jaazaniah, one of the princes against whom Ezekiel was commanded to prophecy

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Nehemiah · 1

  1. Nehemiah 10:17 עַזּֽוּר׃ Azzur

    Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

Jeremiah · 1

  1. Jeremiah 28:1 עַזּ֨וּר Azzur

    In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:

Ezekiel · 1

  1. Ezekiel 11:1 עַזֻּ֛ר Azzur

    Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.

    Here: The father's name, from the root "help". A Hananiah son of Azzur was the prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer 28:1). The two may have been related, but that cannot be proven.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.