Place
Shur
- Location
- 30.235°, 33.247°
An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia (Gen. 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; Ex. 15:22).
Events here
- 1491–1451 BC Wilderness Wanderings
Easton's Bible Dictionary
An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia (Gen. 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; Ex. 15:22). The name was probably given to it from the wall (or shur) which the Egyptians built to defend their frontier on the north-east from the desert tribes. This wall or line of fortifications extended from Pelusium to Heliopolis.
In Scripture
6 verses in 3 books
- Genesis16:7; 20:1; 25:18
- Exodus15:22
- 1 Samuel15:7; 27:8
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