Every Name in Tanakh

אַשְׁחוּר Ashur

Every verse in which this name stands — 2 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 515×2 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

An Israelite. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at 1 Chronicles 2:24 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:5.

1 Chronicles 2:24דברי הימים א ב:כד

וְאַחַר מוֹת־חֶצְרוֹן בְּכָלֵב אֶפְרָתָה וְאֵשֶׁת חֶצְרוֹן אֲבִיָּה וַתֵּלֶד לוֹ אֶת־אַשְׁחוּר אֲבִי תְקֽוֹעַ

And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrath, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

1 Chronicles 4:5דברי הימים א ד:ה

וּלְאַשְׁחוּר אֲבִי תְקוֹעַ הָיוּ שְׁתֵּי נָשִׁים חֶלְאָה וְנַעֲרָֽה

And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Ashur?

Ashur — אשחור in Hebrew — has a gematria of 515 in the standard method.

How many times is Ashur named in the Tanakh?

2 times, first at 1 Chronicles 2:24.

A spelling is not a name. The written word אשחור stands 1 time in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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