Person Old Testament
Pashhur
Also known as Pashhur =ESV, NIV; Pashur =KJV
Pashhur, a priest King Zedekiah sent to inquire of Jeremiah. Mentioned in 2 verses across 1 book, first at Jeremiah 21:1.
Why it matters. Priest sent by Zedekiah to inquire of Jeremiah
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Pashhur
Pashhur son of Malchiah was a priest during the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, according to Jer.21.1 and Jer.38.1. When Jerusalem was under attack by the Babylonians, Zedekiah sent Pashhur and Zephaniah the priest to ask Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord for them, hoping for a miraculous deliverance. Later, Pashhur was among the officials who heard Jeremiah's message that the people should surrender to the Babylonians and urged the king to put Jeremiah to death for demoralizing the people. Pashhur's actions show him to be opposed to Jeremiah's prophetic message.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Malchiah
Appears in Scripture
Named in 2 verses across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.