AZZUR

(Azʹzur) [help, helpful].

1. Father of the false prophet Hananiah from Gibeon.—Jer. 28:1.

2. Father of Jaazaniah, who was one of the “princes of the people” among the twenty-five men Ezekiel envisioned “scheming hurtfulness and advising bad counsel” against Jerusalem.—Ezek. 11:1, 2.

3. One of the “heads of the people” whose descendant, if not himself, attested by seal to Nehemiah’s “trustworthy arrangement.”—Neh. 10:1, 17; 9:38.