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Ben-Hur
In Bible versions:
Ben-Hur: NET AVS NIV TEVBen-hur: NRSV NASB
an officer of food supplies from Ephraim for King Solomon
Hebrew
Strongs #01133: rwx-Nb Ben-Chuwr
Ben-hur = "son of whiteness" or "son of Chur"1) a man who was commissariat officer for Solomon in Mount Ephraim
1133 Ben-Chuwr ben-khoor'
from 1121 and 2354; son of Chur; Ben-Chur, an Israelite:-theson of Hur.
see HEBREW for 01121
see HEBREW for 02354
BEN-HUR [ISBE]
BEN-HUR - ben-hur' (ben-chur, "son of Hur"; the King James Version son of Hur; from a Hebrew root meaning "to be white." Compare HPN, 69, note 3): One of the twelve commissariat officers in the service of Solomon (1 Ki 4:8).