International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PHAISUR

fa'-sur, fa-i'-sur (Codex Vaticanus Phaisour; Codex Alexandrinus Phaisou): Head of one of the families of priests some of whom had taken "strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:22) equals "Pashhur" of Ezra 10:22; styled "Phassurus" in 1 Esdras 5:25.