Geshur: Bridge, the name of a district or principality of Syria near Gilead,
between Mount Hermon and the Lake of Tiberias
(2 Samuel 15:8; 1 Chronicles 2:23) The
Geshurites probably inhabited the rocky fastness of Argob, the modern
Lejah, in the north-east corner of Bashan. In the time of David it
was ruled by Talmai, whose daughter he married, and who was the
mother of Absalom, who fled to Geshur after the murder of Amnon
(2 Samuel 13:37)
