Pashur
    release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah,
    Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was
    "chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning "deputy governor"] of
    the temple" (Jer. 20:1, 2). At this time the _nagid_, or
    "governor," of the temple was Seraiah the high priest (1 Chr.
    6:14), and Pashur was his _paqid_, or "deputy." Enraged at the
    plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of
    coming judgements, because of the abounding iniquity of the
    times, Pashur ordered the temple police to seize him, and after
    inflicting on him corporal punishment (forty stripes save one,
    Deut. 25:3; comp. 2 Cor. 11:24), to put him in the stocks in the
    high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night. On being set
    free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur (Jer. 20:3, 5), and
    announced to him that God had changed his name to
    Magor-missabib, i.e., "terror on every side." The punishment
    that fell upon him was probably remorse, when he saw the ruin he
    had brought upon his country by advising a close alliance with
    Egypt in opposition to the counsels of Jeremiah (20:4-6). He was
    carried captive to Babylon, and died there.
      (2.) A priest sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of
    the Lord (1 Chr. 24:9; Jer. 21:1; 38:1-6). He advised that the
    prophet should be put to death.
      (3.) The father of Gedaliah. He was probably the same as (1).
 Pashur, that extends or multiplies the hole; whiteness