(Azʹzur) [One Offering Help].

1. Father of the false prophet Hananiah from Gibeon.​—Jer 28:1.

2. Father of Jaazaniah, who was one of the “princes of the people” among the 25 men Ezekiel envisioned “scheming hurtfulness and advising bad counsel” against Jerusalem.​—Eze 11:1, 2.

3. One of “the heads of the people” whose descendant, if not he himself, attested by seal to Nehemiah’s “trustworthy arrangement.”​—Ne 10:1, 14, 17; 9:38.