Pashur = "freedom"<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a priest, son of Malchiah and one of the chief princes in the reign of king Zedekiah of Judah<LI>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<LI>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<LI>father of Gedaliah; probably the same as 1<LI>head of a family of returned exiles</OL>