Azur, also Azzur may refer to:

1. The father of Hananiah, a false prophet of Gibeon (Jeremiah 28:1).
2. The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. 11:1).
3. One of those who sealed the covenant with Jehovah on the return from Babylon (Neh. 10:17).

• Meaning: he that assists or is assisted, helpful

A Hebrew name meaning God is Gracious. The name of several characters in the Bible, including: Hananiah (prophet), a false prophet who opposed Jeremiah Hananiah (Book of Daniel), a young man taken captive from Israel to Babylon and companion of Daniel, usually referred to as Shadrach (the Babylonian name imposed... The city of Gibeon in Canaan (about 6 miles north of the center of Jerusalem in the West Bank) was one of the four cities of the Hivites, which did not easily fall to the Hebrews. ... Jehovah is an English transcription of יְהֹוָה, a specific vocalized spelling of יהוה which is found in the Masoretic Text. ... Babylon was a city in Mesopotamia, the ruins of which can be found in present-day Babil Province, Iraq, about 50 miles south of Baghdad. ...

References

This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Eastons Bible Dictionary generally refers to the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, by Matthew George Easton M.A., D.D. (1823-1894), published three years after Eastons death in 1897 by Thomas Nelson. ...