Hur

Huhr

A name of uncertain derivation. 1 One of Israel’s leaders during the wilderness sojourn, who helped govern the people at Sinai in Moses’s absence (Exod 24:14) and supported Moses’s arms during the battle with the Amalekites (Exod 17:10; Exod 17:12). He evidently was the same Hur who was a descendant of Judah and grandfather of Bezalel, the craftsman who built the tabernacle (Exod 31:2; 1Chr 2:19). 2 One of the five Midianite kings killed by Moses in the Transjordan (Num 31:8). 3 The father of Rephaiah, an official contemporary with Nehemiah (Neh 3:9).