father of the wall; father of uprightness
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ABISHUR (father is a wall).A Jerahmeelite (1Ch_2:28 f.).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Ch_2:28.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ab'ishur. (father of the wall). Son of Shammai. 1Ch_2:28.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a-bı̄?shur (אבישׁוּר, 'ăbhı̄shūr, ?my father is a wall?): Great-grandson of Jerahmeel and Atarah, Jerahmeel being great-grandson of Judah. Abishur was son of Shammai, and was the husband of Abihail, and the father of sons (1Ch_2:28, 1Ch_2:29).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Abishur
(Heb. Abishur', אֲבַישׁוּר, father of the wall, i.e. perhaps mason; Sept.
'Αβισούο), the second named of the two sons of Shammai, of the tribe of Judah, who married Abihail, by whom he had two sons (1Ch_2:28-29), B.C. considerably post 1612.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.