Editing Pashhur

{{Short description|Characters in the Book of Jeremiah}}
'''Pashur''' or '''Pashhur''' ({{langx|he|פשחור|Pašḥur}}) was the name of at least two priests contemporary with the [[Biblical prophet|prophet]] [[Jeremiah]] and who are mentioned in the [[Book of Jeremiah]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bibler.org/glossary/pashur.html |title=www.Bibler.org - Dictionary - Pashur |date=2012-09-29 |access-date=2012-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620033644/http://www.bibler.org/glossary/pashur.html |archive-date=2013-06-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The name is of Egyptian origin, Pš-Ḥr.<ref>Wilhelm Spiegelberg (1899), referenced in ''The Interpreter's Bible'', Volume V, p. 970</ref>

==Pashur ben Immer==
Pashhur the son of Immer (possibly the same as [[Amariah]], [[Book of Nehemiah|Nehemiah]] {{bibleverse-nb|Nehemiah|10:3|KJV}}; {{bibleverse-nb|Nehemiah|12:2|KJV}}), was deputy chief priest (''{{Strong-number|paqid|H|06496}} {{Strong-number|nagid|H|05057}}''<ref>[https://biblehub.com/text/jeremiah/20-1.htm Greek Text Analysis: Jeremiah 20:1]. Biblehub</ref>) of the [[temple]] ([[Jeremiah 20:1]], [[Jeremiah 20:2|2]]). (At this time, the [[nagid]] "governor" of the temple would have been [[Seraiah]] - [[1 Chronicles]] {{bibleverse-nb|1 Chronicles|6:14|KJV}}). Enraged at the plainness with which [[Jeremiah (prophet)|Jeremiah]] uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements because of the abounding iniquity of the times, "Pashhur thereupon had Jeremiah flogged and put in the cell at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the [[Solomon's Temple|House of GOD]]." in [[Jeremiah 20:2]]. Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashhur and announced, "[[YHWH|GOD]] has named you not Pashhur, but Magor-missabib," i.e., "terror on every side", and that he would be later carried captive to [[Babylon]] and die there ({{bibleverse|Jeremiah|20:6|KJV}}).{{sfn|Coogan|2007|pp=1109-1110 Hebrew Bible}}

== Pashur ben Malchiah ==
Pashhur, the son of [[Malchiah]], was another priest who was sent by King [[Zedekiah]] to Jeremiah to inquire of the [[YHWH|Lord]] regarding the impending attack of [[Nebuchadnezzar II]] of the [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]] in [[Jeremiah 21:1]]. In [[Jeremiah 38:1]]–[[Jeremiah 38:6|6]], Pashhur was also one of four men who advised Zedekiah to put Jeremiah to death for his prophecies of doom but who ended up throwing him into a [[cistern]].

== Gedaliah ben Pashur ==
Pashhur, the father of [[Gedaliah son of Pashhur|Gedaliah]] in [[Jeremiah 38:1]] is possibly the same Pashhur. Gedaliah was another of the four men who threw Jeremiah into the cistern.

== Historicity ==
The pottery shards of the [[Tel Arad]] ostraca unearthed in the 1970s written in Paleo-Hebrew mention a Pashhur.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mfa.gov.il/mfa/israelexperience/history/pages/arad%20-%20canaanite%20city%20and%20israelite%20citadel%20in%20the.aspx|title=Arad-Canaanite city and Israelite citadel in the Negev - Site No. 6|date=Nov 2000|website=Israeli Foreign Ministry|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref>

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