Geshur in the Bible

Meaning: sight of the valley; a walled valleypar

Exact Match

And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-Jair from them, Kenath and its villages, sixty cities. All these [were] the {descendants} of Makir, the father of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSixties

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

Thematic Bible



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

The third Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur. The fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith.


And David and his men went and ran upon the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites: which nations were from the beginning the inhabiters of the land, as men go to Shur, and so forth to Egypt.


To whom David said, "Whence comest thou?" And the other answered him, "Out of the host of Israel am I escaped."


For thy servant vowed a vow when I was in Geshur in the land of Syria, saying, "If the LORD shall bring me again to Jerusalem, I will serve the LORD."