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pash´hur, pash´ur (פּשחוּר, pashhÌ£uÌ„r, “splitter,†“cleaverâ€): The name of several persons difficult to individuate:
(1) A priest, son of Immer, and “chief governor in the house of the Lord†(), who persecuted Jeremiah, putting him in “the stocks†hard by the “house of Yahweh†in the “gate of Benjamin†(). When released, Jeremiah pronounced Divine judgment on him and the people. Future captivity and an exile's death are promised to Pashur whose name he changed from its masterful significance to a cowering one. “Terror on every side†(māghōr miṣṣābhı̄bh) is to take the place of “stable strength†( ff).
(2) Son of Melchiah, a prince of Judah, and one of the delegation sent by Zedekiah, the king, to consult Jeremiah (). It looks like a larger and later deputation, similarly sent, to which this Pashur belongs, whose record is given in -13. Accompanying them was one, Gedaliah, who was a son of (3).
(3) Another Pashur (), who may be the person mentioned in ; .
(4) A priest, of those who “sealed†Nehemiah's covenant (, ), who may, however, be the same as (5).
(5) The chief of a priestly family called “sons of Pashur†(; ; ; 1 Esdras 5:25 (“Phassurus,†margin “Pashhurâ€); 1 Esdras 9:22 (“Phaisur,†margin “Pashhurâ€)). Doubtless it is this Pashur, some of whose sons had “strange wives†().