Pashhur


Pashur or Pashhur was the name of at least two priests contemporary with the prophet Jeremiah and who are mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah. The name is of Egyptian origin, Pš-Ḥr.

Pashur ben Immer

. Pashur the son of Immer, was deputy chief priest of the temple.. Apparently enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements because of the abounding iniquity of the times, Pashur "smote Jeremiah the prophet" ; then he placed him in the stocks in the high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night.
Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur and announced to him that God had changed his name to ;, i.e., "terror on every side", and that he would be later carried captive to Babylon and die there.

Pashur ben Malchiah

. Pashur, the son of Malchiah, was another priest, who was sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord regarding the impending attack of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. In -, this Pashur was also one of four men who advised Zedekiah to put Jeremiah to death for his prophecies of doom but who ended up throwing him into a cistern.

Gedaliah ben Pashur

. Pashur the father of Gedaliah, possibly the same Pashur as above. Gedaliah was another of the four men who threw Jeremiah into the cistern.

Historicity

The pottery shards of the Tel Arad ostraca unearthed in the 1970s written in Paleo-Hebrew mention Pashur,