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PASHHUR

(Heb. pašḥûr)

1. The son of Malchiah and a descendant of Immer, identified in 1 Chr. 9:12; Neh. 11:12 as the grandfather of Adaiah, a priest in Jerusalem after the Exile. He may be the same as the Pashhur (5) in Jer. 21, 38, , although that individual is not identified as a priest.

2. The head of a priestly family that returned from exile with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:38 = Neh. 7:41; 1 Esdr. 5:25). Several members of the family gave up their foreign wives in response to Nehemiah’s urging (Ezra 10:22; 1 Esdr. 9:22).

3. A postexilic priest who attached his name to the covenant which the returned Israelites made under the direction of Nehemiah (Neh. 10:3[MT 4]).

4. A son of Immer; priest and chief officer in the Jerusalem temple during the time of Jeremiah (Jer. 20:1-6). One of his duties was to maintain order in the temple precincts, and after Jeremiah preached his prophecy of doom in the court of the temple, Pashhur ordered Jeremiah beaten and put in stocks. When Pashhur released him the next day, Jeremiah pronounced upon him the judgment of seeing his family and nation carried into exile. Jeremiah also renamed Pashhur māgôr missābîḇ, “Terror-all-around.” Pashhur was most likely among the temple officials deported to Babylon in 598 b.c.e., since soon afterward his position was taken by Zephaniah (Jer. 29:25).

5. The son of Malchiah; a prince of Judah (Jer. 21:1). King Zedekiah sent Pashhur to request an oracle from Jeremiah when Jerusalem was under siege, and the prophet pronounced an oracle of doom (Jer. 21:3). Later he was part of a group that heard Jeremiah advise Judah to surrender to Babylon, and he requested of the king permission to have Jeremiah put to death. Zedekiah turned Jeremiah over to the group, and they lowered him into a cistern (Jer. 38:1-6).

Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford

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PASHHUR

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)