Bible dictionaries

Sur

What Bible dictionaries say about “Sur”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Sur - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SUR, a prefix, from the French, contracted from L. super, supra, signifies over, above, beyond, upon.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

sur (Codex Vaticanus Assour, Codex Alexandrinus Sour): Those that dwelt in Sur are mentioned along with the inhabitants of Sidon, Tyre, Ocina, etc., as dreading the approach of Holofernes and the Assyrian any (Judith 2:28). The names run from North to South, and Sur immediately follows Tyre (modern Sur]), with which, therefore, it can hardly be identified. No probable identification has been suggested.