Geshur – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Geshur
Geshur was a territory in the northern part of
Bashan, in ancient
Levant, adjoining the province of
Argob and the kingdom of Aram or Syria. (; ) According to the Bible, it was allotted to the half-
tribe of Manasseh, which settled east of the
Jordan river, but its inhabitants, the Geshurites, could not be expelled.
Geshur
Geshuri, sight of the valley; a walled valley
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
About
Geshur
(a bridge), a little principality of Syria, northeast of Bashan. (3:14; 2 Samuel 15:8) It ia highly probable that Geshur was a section of the wild and rugged region now called el-Lejah, still a refuge for criminals and outlaws. See: Argob
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
About
Geshur
bridge, the name of a district or principality of Syria near Gilead, between Mount Hermon and the Lake of Tiberias (2 Sam. 15:8; 1 Chr. 2:23). The Geshurites probably inhabited the rocky fastness of Argob, the modern Lejah, in the north-east corner of Bashan. In the time of David it was ruled by Talmai, whose daughter he married, and who was the mother of Absalom, who fled to Geshur after the murder of Amnon (2 Sam. 13:37).
