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• And in Genesis 10, we read the following:
• Gen. 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
• Gen. 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
• Thus, we find that Asshur is the original Hebrew word. To this day, it has come down to as in English as Assyria. You can hear the similarity, Asshur and Asur-iya. If we do a search with modern Bible software on the Strong’s Key Number, we find that this word is sometimes translated as Asshur, and sometimes as Assyria. They are interchangeable.