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Definition of Ashur

1. Noun. Chief god of the Assyrians; god of military prowess and empire; identified with Babylonian Anshar.

2. Noun. An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq.

Definition of Ashur

1. Proper noun. the head of the Assyrian pantheon, later identified with Anshar ¹

2. Proper noun. the city of Assur ¹

3. Proper noun. a common given name among Assyrian people ¹

4. Proper noun. grandson of Noah in Genesis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashur

Ashkun Ashlee Ashleigh Ashley Ashley's bend Ashley's bends Ashley Montagu Ashlyn Ashman Ashman's phenomenon

Ashmolean Ashtarak Ashton Ashtoreth Ashummeed Jugg Ashur Ashura Ashurbanipal Ashvamedha Ashwamedha

Asia Asia-Pacific Asia Minor Asiago Asian Asian Games Asian Indian Asian Russia Asian Semi-longhair Asian Semi-longhairs

Literary usage of Ashur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"The name of the god being dependent upon that of the city, ashur is thus the god of the city of ashur. The original solar character follows from the common ..."

2. The History of Babylonia and Assyria by Hugo Winckler (1907)
"CHAPTER III THE RISE OF THE LAND OF ashur As was the case with "the kingdom ... It comprised the territory belonging to the city of ashur, the modern Kalah ..."

3. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"... order in list) ashur-narara IV (? order in list) Nabu-dan Tukulti-ashur ... circa 1107 BC ashur-bel-kala Shamshi-Adad IV, brother ashur-nasir-aplu II ..."

4. Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1911)
"made at least one important contribution to what she adopted from the south, in giving to ashur a more spiritual type, as it were, than Enlil, ..."

5. University of Missouri Studies by University of Missouri (1916)
"The problem of the sources for the reign of ashur nasir apal may be approached from a somewhat different angle than we took for those of Tiglath Pileser. ..."

6. Ancient Chronology by Olaf Alfred Toffteen (1907)
"This makes it necessary to assign ashur-nMin-akM, father of ashur- ... -ashur was a usurper, we must regard him as an older son of ashur- nadin-akM, ..."

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