Pashur

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pashur
     release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah,
     Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was
     "chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning "deputy governor"] of
     the temple" (Jer. 20:1, 2). At this time the _nagid_, or
     "governor," of the temple was Seraiah the high priest (1 Chr.


     6:14), and Pashur was his _paqid_, or "deputy." Enraged at the
     plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of
     coming judgements, because of the abounding iniquity of the
     times, Pashur ordered the temple police to seize him, and after
     inflicting on him corporal punishment (forty stripes save one,
     Deut. 25:3; comp. 2 Cor. 11:24), to put him in the stocks in the
     high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night. On being set
     free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur (Jer. 20:3, 5), and
     announced to him that God had changed his name to
     Magor-missabib, i.e., "terror on every side." The punishment
     that fell upon him was probably remorse, when he saw the ruin he
     had brought upon his country by advising a close alliance with
     Egypt in opposition to the counsels of Jeremiah (20:4-6). He was
     carried captive to Babylon, and died there.
     
       (2.) A priest sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of
     the Lord (1 Chr. 24:9; Jer. 21:1; 38:1-6). He advised that the
     prophet should be put to death.
     
       (3.) The father of Gedaliah. He was probably the same as (1).
     

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

  Pashur, that extends or multiplies the hole; whiteness