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Ashur

American  
[ah-shoor, ash-er] / ˈɑ ʃʊər, ˈæʃ ər /

noun

  1. Assur.

  2. a first name.


Ashur British  
/ ˈæʃʊə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Assur

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However, by picking up the action shortly after the end of the Third Servile War, DeKnight and his writers return Ashur to life just in time to see the Roman Republic begin to crumble.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

Ashur doesn’t actually tell her, “You’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star,” as Warner Baxter said to Ruby Keeler, but the idea is roughly the same.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Ashur and Davis offer vivid portrayals, but the rests, if you will, in “Bars and Measures” leave too many gaps for the drama to find a powerful voice.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

Ashur Carraha was 18 of 28 for 221 yards and three touchdowns for Stonehill.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2022

Moreover the tree or pole itself, named ashera, may well have appeared to some Euphratean people, to express the name Ashur sufficiently clear to become its symbol and “canting arms.”

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia