Bible Person
Meaning: who is happy; or walks; or looks · Male · 2 cross references
Ashur is a Judahite family head remembered through multiple wives and sons in Chronicles. He belongs to the richly detailed household texture that gives Judah's genealogy unusual social depth. First appears in 1 Chr 2:24.1
AI summary: Ashur matters because the cross references preserve an unusually developed family cluster around him, naming wives, sons, and related branches. This kind of detail makes the genealogy feel less like abstraction and more like remembered clan history within Judah. Taken together, the material presents Ashur as a Judahite ancestor whose household helps thicken the internal social memory of the tribe.1
Father
Hezron
Meaning: the dart of joy; the division of the song
Mother
Abiah
Meaning: the Lord is my father
Central Figure
Ashur
Meaning: who is happy; or walks; or looks
Siblings
Partners
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.