Geshur

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Geshur
     bridge, the name of a district or principality of Syria near
     Gilead, between Mount Hermon and the Lake of Tiberias (2 Sam.
     15:8; 1 Chr. 2:23). The Geshurites probably inhabited the rocky
     fastness of Argob, the modern Lejah, in the north-east corner of
     Bashan. In the time of David it was ruled by Talmai, whose


     daughter he married, and who was the mother of Absalom, who fled
     to Geshur after the murder of Amnon (2 Sam. 13:37).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Geshur, Geshuri, sight of the valley; a walled valley