Shur

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Shur
     an enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert,
     on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a
     wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia (Gen. 16:7;
     20:1; 25:18; Ex.15:22). The name was probably given to it from
     the wall (or shur) which the Egyptians built to defend their


     frontier on the north-east from the desert tribes. This wall or
     line of fortifications extended from Pelusium to Heliopolis.
     

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

  Shur, wall; ox; that beholds