Assur

or A·sur

[ as-er, ah-soor ]

noun

1. the god of war and supreme national god of Assyria.

Assur

/ ˈæʃʊə; ˈæsə /

noun

1. the supreme national god of the ancient Assyrians, chiefly a war god, whose symbol was an archer within a winged disc
2. one of the chief cities of ancient Assyria, on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) downstream from the present-day city of Mosul

Example Sentences

Assur, it would seem, was a shrine long before Assyria went out of Babylon and builded Nineveh.

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Le Vritable et assur chemin du ciel en Franois et en Anglois.

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Portia.Thyself shalt see the act: For, as thou urgest justice, be assur'd Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.

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It is even possible that Assur-bani-pal himself was the sovereign against whom Manasseh rebelled and before whom he was brought.

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According to Assur-bani-pal all the western lands were inflamed by the revolt of his brother Samas-sum-ukin.

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