Asshur

[ ah-shoor ]

noun

1. Assur.

Asshur

/ ˈæʃʊə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Assur

Example Sentences

In “The War of the Children of Light,” we hear of the “Kittim of Asshur,” evidently the Syrians, the Seleucids, and the “Kittim of Egypt,” evidently the followers of the Ptolemies.

From The New Yorker

The Kittim of Asshur and the Kittim of Egypt would be Syrians and Egyptians allied with the Romans.

From The New Yorker

It consists of an old Assyrian ruin, said to be the remains of the ancient city of Asshur.

From Project Gutenberg

The wife of Bel Nimrod; the wife of Asshur; the wife of Nin.

From Project Gutenberg

Tiglath Pilesar, a king of Assyria, the first of the name, whose reign, though we cannot fix the date precisely, may certainly be put about the year 1110 B.C., narrates in his inscriptions: The temple of the gods Anu and Bin, which Samsi-Bin, the son of Ismidagon, built at Asshur 641 years previously, had fallen down; King Assur-dayan had caused the ruins to be removed without rebuilding it.

From Project Gutenberg