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Strong's #1650 - גְּשׁוּר
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Geshur or Geshurites = “proud beholder”
1) a people
2) a land in north Transjordania
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1 of people, = הַגְּשׁוּרִי Joshua 13:13 compare 1 Chronicles 2:23.
2 of landמֶלֶךְ גְּשׁוּר 2 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 13:37 compare 2 Samuel 13:38 (but text in disorder compare ᵐ5 We Dr) 2 Samuel 14:32; 2 Samuel 15:8 בַּאֲרָם׳בִּגְ 1 Chronicles 3:2, גְּשׁ֫וּרָה 2 Samuel 14:23; a territory east of the upper Jordan, exact limits unknown; according to Guthe ZPV xii. 1889,232f. between Gilead and Hermon, in Jaulân; according to Furrer ib. xiii. 1890,198 = the Ledjah, district east of Jaulân, with town Jisre; against him Guthe ib. 285 f.
גְּשׁוּר (“bridge,” Arab. جِسْرُ, Syriac ܓܺܝܫܳܪܐܳ), pr.n. Geshur, a region of Syria, subject to king Tolmai, whose daughter David took to wife, 2 Samuel 3:3, 13:37 15:8. From the words 1 Chronicles 2:23, it may be gathered that Geshur is to be sought in the neighbourhood of Gilead, and that the Geshurites are not different from the גְּשׁוּרִים, mentioned immediately under גְּשׁוּרִי.
