Geshur in the Bible

Meaning: sight of the valley; a walled valleypar

Exact Match

but Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the villages thereof, sixty cities. All these, were the sons of Machir, father of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSixties

the third, Absalom, son of Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur, - the fourth, Adonijah, son of Haggith;

Thematic Bible



and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maachah, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

the third, Absalom the son of Maachah, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;


And David and his men went up and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Gerzites, and the Amalekites: for those were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, and as far as the land of Egypt.


And David said to him, Whence comest thou? And he said to him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.


For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode in Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.