Assur – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Assur
Assur
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1. an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq
(synonym) Asur, Ashur
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Assyria
Assur
Assur (Chaldean or Assyrian) [from a-shir leader] Also Asur, Ashur. Originally the titular deity of an ancient Assyrian city of learning on the Tigris, but with the rise of the Assyrian Empire his prominence was extended so that he became one of the foremost gods of the Assyrian pantheon. The title Asir was also given to other important deities such as Marduk and Nebo. Like Marduk, Assur was first recognized as a solar deity and represented in symbol with the adjunct of the winged disk; but later he became a god of war, so that the winged disk took a minor place under the figure of a man with a bow. Assur remained the chief deity even when the Assyrian capital was moved to Nineveh about the 8th century BC, although he was obliged to share this honor with Ishtar, then regarded as his consort, until the fall of the Assyrian Empire (606 BC).
Assur
same as Ashur
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
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Assur
(Ezra 4:2; Psalms 83:8) See: Asshur, Assyria, Asshur; ASSYRIA
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
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