פַּשְׁחוּר

Pashur = &quot freedom&quot , a priest, son of Malchiah and one of the chief princes in the reign of king Zedekiah of Judah, a priest, son of Immer, chief governor of the temple, and the one who struck and then put the prophet Jeremiah into the stocks in the reign of king Jehoiakim of Judah, son of Malchijah, father of Zechariah, and ancestor of Adaiah who did the work of the temple in the time of Nehemiah. Probably same as 1, father of Gedaliah probably the same as 1, head of a family of returned exiles