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SUR

(Heb. sûr; Gk. Soúr)

1. An inner gate at the northwestern enclosure of Solomon’s temple which led from the royal quarters to the temple area (2 Kgs. 11:6). Called the Sur Gate or the Foundation Gate (2 Chr. 23:5; Heb. yĕsôḏ), this was where Jehoiada the priest posted a guard to protect the coronation of Josiah from Athaliah the wicked queen.

2. A town on the Mediterranean coast, otherwise unattested, which sent envoys to seek peace with Holofernes (Jdt. 2:28). Sur may be a corruption of the name Dor (a seacoast town 24 km. [15 mi.] S of Mt. Carmel), but this would not coincide with the order of the towns as listed in Judith. The reference may be fictitious or simply incorrect.

Bibliography. N. Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (Nashville, 1980); J. J. Simon, Jerusalem in the Old Testament (Leiden, 1952).

Dennis M. Swanson






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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