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ZACCHAEUS
@ a publican- kjv@Luke:19:2
ZACHARIAH @ king of Israel, son of Jeroboam
(2)- kjv@2Kings:14:29; kjv@2Kings:15:8,11
ZACHARIAS @
(1) Or, Zechariah, slain by Jews- kjv@2Chronicles:24:20; kjv@Matthew:23:35; kjv@Luke:11:51
(2) Father of John the Baptist- kjv@Luke:1:5,13,21,62,67
ZADOK @ son of Ahitub- kjv@2Samuel:8:17; kjv@2Samuel:15:24; kjv@2Samuel:20:25; kjv@1Kings:1:39; kjv@1Kings:2:35; kjv@1Chronicles:16:39
ZAREPHATH OR SAREPTA @ a town of Phoenicia- kjv@1Kings:17:9; kjv@Obadiah:1:20; kjv@Luke:4:26
ZEAL, UNWISE @ examples of- kjv@Mark:1:45; kjv@Mark:7:36; kjv@Mark:14:47; kjv@Romans:10:2 -, Christ's.
See EARNESTNESS - Enjoined.
See EARNESTNESS -, Evil.
See - for Souls.
See EARNESTNESS
ZEBEDEE @ kjv@Matthew:4:21; kjv@Mark:1:20; kjv@Luke:5:10
ZEBULUN @
(1) Son of Jacob- kjv@Genesis:30:20; kjv@Genesis:35:23; kjv@Genesis:49:13
(2) Tribe of- kjv@Judges:1:30; kjv@Judges:4:6; kjv@Judges:6:35; kjv@1Chronicles:12:33; kjv@2Chronicles:30:11; kjv@Matthew:4:15
ZECHARIAH @ a prophet- kjv@Ezra:5:1; kjv@Ezra:6:14; kjv@Zechariah:1:1; kjv@Zechariah:7:1 - a Priest. SEE Zacharias
(1), ZACHARIAS
ZEDEKIAH @
(1) Or Mattaniah, King of Judah, son of Josiah- kjv@2Kings:24:17; kjv@2Kings:25:2; kjv@2Chronicles:36:11; kjv@Jeremiah:32:3; kjv@Jeremiah:37:1
(2) A False Prophet- kjv@1Kings:22:11; kjv@2Chronicles:18:10; kjv@Jeremiah:29:22
ZEPHANIAH @ a priest in the reign of Zedekiah- kjv@2Kings:25:18; kjv@Jeremiah:21:1; kjv@Jeremiah:29:25; kjv@Jeremiah:52:24 - the Prophet
See Book of Zephaniah
ZERUBBABEL OR SHESHBAZZAR @ leader of the Jews who returned from captivity- kjv@Ezra:3:8; kjv@Nehemiah:12:47; kjv@Haggai:2:2; kjv@Zechariah:4:6
ZERUIAH @ sister of David, mother of Joab, Abishai and Asahel- kjv@2Samuel:2:18; kjv@2Samuel:3:39; kjv@2Samuel:16:9; kjv@2Samuel:17:25; kjv@1Chronicles:2:16
ZIBA @ Saul's servant- kjv@2Samuel:16:1; kjv@2Samuel:19:26
ZIKLAG @ a city of Judah- kjv@Joshua:15:31; kjv@Joshua:19:5; kjv@1Samuel:27:6; kjv@1Samuel:30:1,14; kjv@1Chronicles:12:1; kjv@Nehemiah:11:28
ZIN, WILDERNESS OF @ kjv@Numbers:13:21; kjv@Numbers:20:1; kjv@Numbers:27:14; kjv@Numbers:33:36; kjv@Numbers:34:3; kjv@Deuteronomy:32:51; kjv@Joshua:15:1
ZION OR SION @ kjv@2Samuel:5:7; kjv@1Kings:8:1; kjv@Psalms:87:2; kjv@Romans:11:26; kjv@Hebrews:12:22; kjv@Revelation:14:1 Jerusalem, JERUSALEM
ZIPPORAH @ daughter of Jethro, married to Moses- kjv@Exodus:2:16; kjv@Exodus:4:25; kjv@Exodus:18:2; kjv@Numbers:12:1
ZOAN @ a city of Egypt- kjv@Numbers:13:22; kjv@Isaiah:19:11; kjv@Ezekiel:30:14
ZOAR @ a small city in the plain of Jordan- kjv@Genesis:13:10; kjv@Genesis:19:22; kjv@Deuteronomy:34:3; kjv@Isaiah:15:5; kjv@Jeremiah:48:34
ZOPHAR @ Job's friend- kjv@Job:2:1; kjv@Job:11:1; kjv@Job:20:1
ZORAH @ a town of Dan- kjv@Joshua:19:41; kjv@Judges:13:2; kjv@Judges:16:31; kjv@Judges:18:2; kjv@2Chronicles:11:10
ZUPH, LAND OF @ kjv@1Samuel:9:5
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ZAANAIM
- Z>@ - (removings), The plain of, or more accurately, "the oak by Zaanaim," a tree-probably a sacred tree
mentioned as marking the spot near which Heber the Kenite was encamped when Sisera took refuge in his tent. kjv@Judges:4:11) Its situation is defined as "near Kedesh," i.e. Kedesh-naphtali, the name of which still lingers on the high ground north of Safed and two or three miles west of the lake of el
- Huleh (waters of Merom). This whole region abounds in oaks.
ZAANAN
- Z>@ - ZENAN
ZAAVAN, OR ZAVAN
- Z>@ - (migratory), a Horite chief, son of Ezer the son of Seir. kjv@Genesis:36:27; kjv@1Chronicles:1:42)
ZABAD
- Z>@ - (gift). Son of Nathan son of Attai, son of Ahlai Sheshan’s daughter, ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:31-37) and hence called son of Ahlai. ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:41) (B.C. 1046.) He was one of David’s mighty men but none of his deeds have been recorded. The chief interest connected with him is in his genealogy, which is of considerable importance in a chronological point of view. An Ephraimite, if the text of ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:21) Isa correct. Son of Shimeath, an Ammonitess; an assassin who, with Jehozabad, slew King Joash, according to ( kjv@2Chronicles:24:26) (B.C. 840); but in ( kjv@2Kings:12:21) his name is written, probably more correctly, JOZACHAR. A layman of Israel, of the sons of Zattu, who put away his foreign wife at Ezra’s command. kjv@Ezra:10:27) (B.C. 458.) One of the descendants of Hashum who had married a foreign wife after the captivity. kjv@Ezra:10:33) (B.C. 458.) One of the sons of Nebo whose name is mentioned under the same circumstances as the two preceding. kjv@Ezra:10:43)
ZABADEANS
- Z>@ - an Arab tribe who were attacked and spoiled by Jonathan, on his way back to Damascus from his fruitless pursuit of the army of Demetrius. 1 Macc. 12:31. Their name probably survives in the village of Zebdany , about 26 miles from Damascus.
ZABBAI
- Z>@ - (pure). One of the descendants of Bebai who had married a foreign wife in the days of Ezra. kjv@Ezra:10:28) (B.C. 458.) Father of Baruch who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the city wall. kjv@Nehemiah:3:20) (B.C. before 446.)
ZABBUD
- Z>@ - (given) one of the sons of Bigvai, who returned in the second caravan with Ezra. kjv@Ezra:8:14) (B.C. 459.)
ZABDI
- Z>@ - (my gift). Son of Zerah the son of Judah, and ancestor of Achan. kjv@Joshua:7:1 kjv@Joshua:7:17-18) (B.C. before 1480.) A Benjamite, of the sons of Shimhi. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:19) (B.C. about 1442.) David’s officer over the produce of the vineyards for the wine-cellars. ( kjv@1Chronicles:21:27) (B.C. 1043.) Son of Asaph the minstrel, kjv@Nehemiah:11:17) called ZACCUR in kjv@Nehemiah:12:35) and ZICHRI in ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:15) (B.C. before 446.)
ZABDIEL
- Z>@ - (gift of God). Father of Jashobeam, a chief of David’s guard. ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:2) (B.C. before 1046.) A priest, son of the great men or as the margin gives it, "Haggedolim." kjv@Nehemiah:11:14) (B.C. 459.)
ZABUD
- Z>@ - (given), son of Nathan, (Kings:4:5) is described as a priest (Authorized Version "principal officer"), and as holding at the court of Solomon the confidential post of "king’s friend," which had been occupied by Hushai the Archite during the reign of David. (2 Samuel 15:37; 16:16; kjv@1Chronicles:27:33) (B.C. 1012.)
ZABULON
- Z>@ - the Greek form of the name Zebulun. kjv@Matthew:4:13; 15; kjv@Revelation:7:8)
ZACCAI
- Z>@ - (pure). The sons of Zaccai to the number of 760, returned with Zerrubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:9; kjv@Nehemiah:7:14) (B.C. before 536.)
ZACCHAEUS
- Z>@ - (pure), a tax-collector near Jericho, who, being short in stature climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to obtain a sight of Jesus as he passed through that place. kjv@Luke:19:1-10) Zacchaeus was a Jew, as may be inferred from his name and from the fact that the Saviour speaks of him expressly as "a son of Abraham." The term which designates his office -"the chief among the publicans" -is unusual, but describes him, no doubt, as the superintendent of customs or tribute in the district of Jericho, where he lived. The office must have been a lucrative one in such a region, and it is not strange that Zacchaeus is mentioned by the evangelists as a rich man. The Saviour spent the night probably in the house of Zacchaeus, and the next day pursued his journey. He was in the caravan from Galilee which was going to Jerusalem to keep the Passover.
ZACCHUR
- Z>@ - a Simeonite, of the family of Mishma. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:26)
ZACCUR
- Z>@ - (mindful). Father of Shammua, the Reubenite spy. kjv@Numbers:13:4) (B.C. 1451.) A Merarite Levite, son of Jaaziah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:27) Son of Asaph the singer. ( kjv@1Chronicles:25:2 kjv@1Chronicles:25:10 kjv@Nehemiah:12:35) The son of Imri who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the city wall. kjv@Nehemiah:3:2) (B.C. 446.) A Levite, or family of Levites, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:18) (B.C. 410.) A Levite whose son or descendant Hanan was one of the treasurers over the treasuries appointed by Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:13:13)
ZACHARIAH
- Z>@ - (remembered by Jehovah), or properly Zechariah. Son of Jeroboam II., fourteenth king of Israel, and the last of the house of Jehu. There is a difficulty about the date of his reign. Most chronologers assume an interregnum of eleven years between Jeroboam’s death and Zachariah’s accession. The latter event took place B.C. 772-1. His reign lasted only six months. He was killed in a conspiracy of which Shallum was the head, and by which the prophecy in ( kjv@2Kings:10:30) was accomplished, The father of Abi or Abijah, Hezekiah’s mother. ( kjv@2Kings:18:2)
ZACHARIAS
- Z>@ - (Greek form of Zechariah). Father of John the Baptist. kjv@Luke:1:5) etc. He was a priest of the course of Abia. the eighth of the twenty-four courses who ministered at the temple in turn. He probably lived at Hebron. His wife’s name was Elisabeth. John was born to them in their old age, and the promise of this son was communicated to Zacharias by an angel while he was offering incense and praying in the temple. Son of Barachias, who, our Lord says, was slain by the Jews between the altar and the temple. kjv@Matthew:23:35; kjv@Luke:11:61) There has been much dispute who this Zacharias was. Many of the Greek fathers have maintained that the father of John the Baptist is the person to whom our Lord alludes but there can be little or no doubt that the allusion is to Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, ( kjv@2Chronicles:24:20-21) and he may have been called "the son" of Barachias from his grandfather. (B.C. 838.) He is mentioned as being the martyr last recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures (as Abel was the first) -d Chronicles being the last book in their canon.
ZACHER
- Z>@ - (memorial), one of the sons of Jehiel, the father or founder of Gibeon, by his wife Maachah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:31) (B.C. about 1450.)
ZADOK
- Z>@ - (just). Son of Ahitub and one of the two chief priests in the time of David, Abiathar being the other. Zadok was of the house of Eleazar the son of Aaron, ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:3) and eleventh in descent from Aaron. ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:28) He joined David at Hebron after Saul’s death, ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:28) and thenceforth his fidelity to David was inviolable. When Absalom revolted and David fled from Jerusalem, Zadok and all the Levites bearing the ark accompanied him. When Absalom was dead, Zadok and Abiathar were the persons who persuaded the elders of Judah to invite David to return. (2 Samuel 19:11) When Adonijah, in David’s old age, set up for king, and had persuaded Joab, and Abiathar the priest, to join his party, Zadok was unmoved, and was employed by David to anoint Solomon to be king in his room. (Kings:1:34) For this fidelity he was rewarded by Solomon who "thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord," and "put in Zadok the priest" in his room. (Kings:2:27,35) From this time, however, we hear little of him. Zadok and Abiathar were of nearly equal dignity. (2 Samuel 15:35-36; 19:11) The duties of the office were divided, Zadok ministered before the tabernacle at Gibeon, ( kjv@1Chronicles:16:39) Abiathar had the care of the ark at Jerusalem. According to the genealogy of the high priests in ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:12) there was a second Zadok, son of a second Ahitub son of Amariah, about the time of King Ahaziah. It is probable that no such person as this second Zadok ever existed, but that the insertion of the two names is a copyist’s error. Father of Jerushah, the wife of King Uzziah and mother of King Jotham. ( kjv@2Kings:15:33; kjv@2Chronicles:27:1) Son of Baana, and 5. Son of Immer, persons who repaired a portion of the wall in Nehemiah’s time. kjv@Nehemiah:3:4 kjv@Nehemiah:3:29) In ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:11) and Nehe 11:11 Mention is made, in a genealogy, of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub; but it can hardly be doubtful that Meraioth is inserted by the error of a copyist, and that Zadok the son of Ahitub is meant.
ZAHAM
- Z>@ - (fatness), son of Rehoboam by Abihail the daughter of Eliab. ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:19)
ZAIR
- Z>@ - (small), a place named in ( kjv@2Kings:8:21) only, in the account of Joram’s expedition against the Edomites. It has been conjectured that Zair is identical with Zoar.
ZALAPH
- Z>@ - (wound) father of Hanun, who assisted in rebuilding the city wall. kjv@Nehemiah:3:30)
ZALMON
- Z>@ - (shady), an Ahohite one of David’s guard. (2 Samuel 23:28)
ZALMON, MOUNT
- Z>@ - a wooded eminence in the immediate neighborhood of Shechem. kjv@Judges:9:48) The name of Dalmanutha has been supposed to be a corruption of that of Zalmon.
ZALMONAH
- Z>@ - (shady), a desert station of the Israelites, kjv@Numbers:33:41) lies on the east side of Edom.
ZALMUNNA
- Z>@ - ZEBAH
ZAMZUMMIM
- Z>@ - kjv@Deuteronomy:2:20) only, the Ammonite name for the people who by others were called Rephaim. They are described as having originally been a powerful and numerous nation of giants. From a slight similarity between the two names, and from the mention of the Emim in connection with each, it is conjectured that the Zamzummim are identical with the Zuzim.
ZANOAH
- Z>@ - (marsh). A town of Judah in the Shefelah or plain, kjv@Joshua:15:34; kjv@Nehemiah:3:13 kjv@Nehemiah:11:30) possibly identical with Zanu’a . A town of Judah in the highland district, kjv@Joshua:15:66) not improbably identical with Sanute , about 10 miles south of Hebron. In the genealogical lists of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chron., Jekuthiel is said to have been the father of Zanoah. ch. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:18) As Zanoah is the name of a town of Judah, this mention of Bithiah probably points to some colonization of the place by Egyptians or by Israelites directly from Egypt.
ZAPHNATHPAANEAH
- Z>@ - a name given by Pharaoh to Joseph. kjv@Genesis:41:45) The rabbins interpreted Zaphnath-paaneah as Hebrew in the sense revealer of a secret . As the name must have been Egyptian, it has been explained from the Coptic as meaning the preserver of the age.
ZAPHON
- Z>@ - (north), a place mentioned in the enumeration of the allotment of the tribe of Gad. kjv@Joshua:13:27)
ZARA, OR ZARAH
- Z>@ - the son of Judah. kjv@Matthew:1:3)
ZARAH, OR ZERAH
- Z>@ - the son of Judah. kjv@Genesis:38:30 kjv@Genesis:48:12)
ZAREAH
- Z>@ - the same as Zorah and Zoreah. kjv@Nehemiah:11:29)
ZAREATHITES, THE
- Z>@ - the inhabitants of Zareah or Zorah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:53)
ZARED, THE VALLEY OF
- Z>@ - ZERED
ZAREPHATH
- Z>@ - (smelting place), the residence of the prophet Elijah during the latter part of the drought. (Kings:17:9-10) It was near to, or dependent on, Zidon. It is represented by the modern village of Sura-fend . Of the old town considerable indications remain. One group of foundations is on a headland called Ain el
- Kanatarah ; but the chief remains are south of this, and extend for a mile or more, with many fragments of columns, slabs and other architectural features. In the New Testament Zarephath appears under the Greek form of SAREPTA. kjv@Luke:4:26)
ZARETAN, OR ZARTHAN
- Z>@ - kjv@Joshua:3:16)
ZARETHSHAHAR
- Z>@ - (splendor of the dawn), a place mentioned only in kjv@Joshua:13:19) in the catalogue of the towns allotted to Reuben.
ZARHITES, THE
- Z>@ - a branch of the tribe of Judah, descended from Zerah the son of Judah. kjv@Numbers:26:13 kjv@Numbers:26:20 kjv@Joshua:7:17; kjv@1Chronicles:27:11 kjv@1Chronicles:27:15)
ZARTANAH
- Z>@ - (Kings:4:12) ZARETAN, OR ZARTHAN, ZARTHAN
ZARTHAN
- Z>@ - A place in the circle of Jordan, mentioned in connection with Succoth. (Kings:7:46) It is also named in the account of the passage of the Jordan by the Israelites, kjv@Joshua:3:18) where the authorized Version has Zaretan. A place with the similar name of Zartanah. (Kings:4:12) Further, Zeredathah, named in ( kjv@2Chronicles:4:17) only in specifying the situation of the foundries for the brass-work of Solomon’s temple, is substituted for Zarthan; and this again is not impossibly identical with the Zererath of the story of Gideon. kjv@Judges:7:22) All these spots agree in proximity to the Jordan, but beyond this we are absolutely at fault as to their position.
ZATTU
- Z>@ - The sons of Zattu were a family of laymen of Israel who returned with Zerubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:8; kjv@Nehemiah:7:13)
ZAVAN
- Z>@ - ( kjv@1Chronicles:1:42) ZAAVAN, OR ZAVAN
ZAZA
- Z>@ - one of the sons of Jonathan, a descendant of Jerahmeel. ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:33)
ZEBADIAH
- Z>@ - A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:15) A Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:17) One of the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:7) Son of Asahel, the brother of Joab. ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:7) Son of Michael, of the sons of Shephatiah. kjv@Ezra:8:8) A priest Of the sons of Immer, who had married a foreign wife after the return from Babylon. kjv@Ezra:10:20) Third son of Meshelemiah the Korhite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:26:3) A Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat. ( kjv@2Chronicles:17:8) The son of Ishmael and prince of the house of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat. ( kjv@2Chronicles:19:11)
ZEBAH
- Z>@ - and Zalmun’na (deprived of protection), the two "kings" of Midian who commanded the great invasion of Palestine, and who finally fell by the hand of Gideon himself. kjv@Judges:8:5-21; kjv@Psalms:83:11) (B.C. 1250.) While Oreb and Zeeb, two of the inferior leaders of the incursion, had been slain, with a vast number of their people, by the Ephraimites, at the central fords of the Jordan the two kings had succeeded in making their escape by a passage farther to the north (probably the ford near Bethshean), and thence by the Wady Yabis , through Gilead, to Kurkor, high up on the Hauran. Here they sere reposing their with 15,000 men, a mere remnant of their huge horde, when Gideon overtook them. The people fled in dismay, and Gideon captured the two kings and brought them to his native village, Ophrah where he slew them because they had killed his brothers.
ZEBAIM
- Z>@ - (the gazelles), mentioned in the catalogue of the families of "Solomon’s slaves" who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:57; kjv@Nehemiah:7:59)
ZEBEDEE
- Z>@ - (my gift) (Greek form of Zabdi) a fisherman of Galilee, the father of the apostles James the Great and John kjv@Matthew:4:21) and the husband of Salome. kjv@Matthew:27:56; kjv@Mark:15:40) He probably lived either at Bethsaida or in its immediate neighborhood. It has been inferred from the mention of his "hired servants," kjv@Mark:1:20) and from the acquaintance between the apostle John and Annas the high priest, kjv@John:18:15) that the family of Zebedee were in easy circumstances. comp. kjv@John:19:27) although not above manual labor. kjv@Matthew:4:21) He appears only twice in the Gospel narrative, namely, in kjv@Matthew:4:21-22; kjv@Mark:1:19-20) where he is seen in his boat with his two sons mending their nets.
ZEBINA
- Z>@ - (purchase), one of the sons of Nebo who had taken foreign wives after the return from Babylon, kjv@Ezra:10:43)
ZEBOIM
- Z>@ - (gazelles). One of the five cities of the "plain" or circle of Jordan. It is mentioned in kjv@Genesis:10:19 kjv@Genesis:14:2 kjv@Genesis:14:8 kjv@Genesis:29:23 ; kjv@Hosea:11:8) in each, of which passages it is either coupled with Admah or placed next it in the lists
perhaps represented by Talaa Sebaan , a name attached to extensive ruins on the high ground between the Dead Sea and Kerak . In kjv@Genesis:14:2 kjv@Genesis:14:8) the name is given more correctly in the Authorized Version ZEBOIIM. The valley of Zeboim, a ravine or gorge, apparently east of Michmash, mentioned only in ( kjv@1Samuel:13:18) The road running from Michmash to the east is specified as "the road of the border that looketh to the ravine of Zeboim toward the wilderness." The wilderness is no doubt the district of uncultivated mountain tops and sides which lies between the central district of Benjamin and the Jordan valley. In that very district there is a wild gorge bearing the name of Shuk ed
- Dubba’ , ravine of the hyena, "the exact equivalent of Ge hat-tsebo’im .
ZEBUDAH
- Z>@ - (bestowed), wife of Josiah and mother of King Jehoiakim. ( kjv@2Kings:23:36) (B.C. 653.)
ZEBUL
- Z>@ - (habitation), chief man (Authorized Version "ruler") of the city of Shechem at the time of the contest between Abimelech and the native Canaanites. kjv@Judges:9:28-30 kjv@Judges:9:36,41) (B.C. 1209.)
ZEBULONITE
- Z>@ - a member of the tribe of Zebulun. kjv@Judges:12:11-12) Applied only to Elon, the one judge produced by the tribe. kjv@Judges:12:11-12)
ZEBULUN
- Z>@ - (a habitation), the tenth of the sons of Jacob, according to the order in which their births are enumerated, the sixth and last of Leah. kjv@Genesis:30:20 kjv@Genesis:35:23 kjv@Genesis:46:14 ; kjv@1Chronicles:2:1) His birth is mentioned in kjv@Genesis:30:19-20) Of the individual Zebulun nothing is recorded. The list of Genesis:46 ascribes to him three sons, founders of the chief families of the tribe (comp.) kjv@Numbers:26:26) at the time of the migration to Egypt. The tribe is not recorded to have taken part, for evil or good, in any of the events of the wandering or the conquest. The statement of Josephus is probably in the main correct, that it reached on the one side to the Lake of Gennesareth and on the other to Carmel and the Mediterranean. On the south it was bounded by Issachar, who lay in the great plain or valley of the Kishon; on the north it had Naphtali and Asher. Thus remote from the centre of government, Zebulun remains throughout the history with one exception, in the obscurity which envelops the whole of the northern tribes. That exception, however, is a remarkable one. The conduct of the tribe during the struggle with Sisera, when they fought with desperate valor side by side with their brethren of Naphtali, was such as to draw down the special praise of Deborah, who singles them out from cell the other tribes. kjv@Judges:5:18)
ZEBULUNITES, THE
- Z>@ - the members of the tribe of Zebulun. kjv@Numbers:26:27) only.
ZECHARIAH
- Z>@ - The eleventh in order of the twelve minor prophets. He is called in his prophecy the son of Berechiah and the grandson of Iddo, whereas in the book of Ezra, kjv@Ezra:5:1 kjv@Ezra:6:14) he is said to have been the son of Iddo. It is natural to suppose as the prophet himself mentions his father’s name, whereas the book of Ezra mentions only Iddo, that Berechiah had died early, and that there was now no intervening link between the grandfather and the grandson. Zechariah, like Jeremiah and Ezekiel before him, was priest as well as prophet. He seems to have entered upon his office while yet young, kjv@Zechariah:2:4) and must have been born in Babylon whence he returned with the first caravan of exiles under Zerubbabel and Jeshua. It was in the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, that he first publicly discharged his office. In this he acted in concert with Haggai. Both prophets had the same great object before them; both directed all their energies to the building of the second temple. To their influence we find the rebuilding of the temple in a great measure ascribed. If the later Jewish accounts may be trusted, Zechariah, as well as Haggai, was a member of the Great Synagogue. The genuine writings of Zechariah help us but little in our estimate of his character. Some faint traces, however, we may observe in them, of his education in Babylon. He leans avowedly on the authority of the older prophets, and copies their expressions. Jeremiah especially seems to have been his favorite; and hence the Jewish saying that "the spirit of Jeremiah dwelt in Zechariah." But in what may be called the peculiarities of his prophecy, he approaches more nearly to Ezekiel and Daniel. Like them he delights in visions; like them he uses symbols and allegories rather than the bold figures and metaphors which lend so much force and beauty to the writings of the earlier prophets. Generally speaking, Zechariah’s style is pure, and remarkably free from Chaldaisms. Son of Meshelemiah or Shelemiah a Korhite, and keeper of the north gate of the tabernacle of the congregation, ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:21) (B.C. 1043.) One of the sons of Jehiel. ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:37) A Levite of the second order in the temple band as arranged by David, appointed to play "with psalteries on Alamoth." ( kjv@1Chronicles:15:18-20) (B.C. 1043.) One of the princes of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat. ( kjv@2Chronicles:17:7) (B.C. 910.) Son of the high priest Jehoiada, in the reign of Joash king of Judah ( kjv@2Chronicles:24:20) and therefore the king’s cousin. After the death of Jehoiada, Zechariah probably succeeded to his office, and in attempting to check the reaction in favor of idolatry which immediately followed he fell a victim to a conspiracy formed against him by the king, and was stoned in the court of the temple. He is probably the same as the "Zacharias son of Barachias" who was slain between the temple and the altar. kjv@Matthew:23:35) [ZACHARIAS, No. 2] (B.C. 838.) A Kohathite Levite in the reign of Josiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:34:12) (B.C. 628.) The leader of the sons of Pharosh who returned with Ezra. kjv@Ezra:8:3) (B.C. 450.) Son of Behai. kjv@Ezra:8:11) One of the chiefs of the people whom Ezra summoned in council at the river Ahava. kjv@Ezra:8:16) He stood at Ezra’s left hand when he expounded the law to the people. kjv@Nehemiah:8:4) (B.C. 459.) One of the family of Elam who had married a foreign wife after the captivity. kjv@Ezra:10:26) (B.C.458.) Ancestor of Athaiah or Uthai. kjv@Nehemiah:11:4) A Shilonite, descendant of Perez. kjv@Nehemiah:11:5) A priest, son of Pashur. kjv@Nehemiah:11:12) The representative of the priestly family of Iddo in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua. kjv@Nehemiah:12:16) (B.C. 536.) possibly the same as Zechariah the prophet, the son of Iddo. One of the priests, son of Jonathan, who blew with the trumpets at the dedication of the city wall by Ezra and Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:12:36 kjv@Nehemiah:12:41) (B.C. 446.) A chief of the Reubenites at the time of the captivity by Tiglath-pileser. ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:7) (B.C. 740.) One of the priests who accompanied the ark from the house of Obed-edom. ( kjv@1Chronicles:15:24) (B.C. 1043.) Son of Isshiah or Jesiah, a Kohathite Levite descended from Uzziel. ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:25) (B.C. 1043.) Fourth son of Hosah of the children of Merari. ( kjv@1Chronicles:26:11) A Manassite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:21-22) The father of Jahaziel. ( kjv@2Chronicles:20:14) One of the sons of Jehoshaphat. ( kjv@2Chronicles:21:2) A prophet in the reign of Uzziah who appears to have acted as the king’s counsellor, but of whom nothing is known. ( kjv@2Chronicles:26:5) (B.C. 807.) The father of Abijah or Abi, Hezekiah’s mother. ( kjv@2Chronicles:29:1) One of the family of Asaph in the reign of Hezekiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:29:13) (B.C. 727.) One of the rulers of the temple in the reign of Josiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:35:8) (B.C. 628.) The son of Jeberechiah, who was taken by the prophet Isaiah as one of the "faithful witnesses to record," when he wrote concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. kjv@Isaiah:8:2) (B.C. 723.) He may have been the Levite of the same name who in the reign of Hezekiah assisted in the purification of the temple. ( kjv@2Chronicles:29:13) Another conjecture is that he is the same as Zechariah the father of Abijah, the queen of Ahaz.
ZECHARIAH, THE BOOK OF
- Z>@ - The book of Zechariah, in its existing form, consists of three principal parts, vis. chs. 1-8; chs. 9-11; chs. 12-14. The first of these divisions is allowed by the critics to be the genuine work of Zechariah the son of Iddo. It consists, first, of a short introduction or preface in which the prophet announces his commission; then of a series of visions, descriptive of all those hopes and anticipations of which the building of the temple was the pledge and sure foundation and finally of a discourse, delivered two years later, in reply to questions respecting the observance of certain established fasts. The remainder of the book consists of two sections of about equal length, chs. 9-11 and 12-14, each of which has an inscription.
(1) In the first section he threatens Damascus and the seacoast of Palestine with misfortune, but declares that Jerusalem shall be protected.
(2) The second section is entitled "The burden of the word of Jehovah for Israel." But Israel is here used of the nation at large, not of Israel as distinct from Judah. Indeed the prophecy which follows concerns Judah and Jerusalem, in this the prophet beholds the near approach of troublous times, when Jerusalem should be hard pressed by enemies. But in that day Jehovah shall come to save them an all the nations which gather themselves against Jerusalem shall be destroyed. Many modern critics maintain that the later chapters, from the ninth to the fourteenth, were written by some other prophet, who lived before the exile. The prophecy closes with a grand and stirring picture. All nations are gathered together against Jerusalem, and seem already sure of their prey. Half of their cruel work has been accomplished, when Jehovah himself appears on behalf of his people. He goes forth to war against the adversaries of his people. He establishes his kingdom over all the earth. All nations that are still left shall come up to Jerusalem, as the great centre of religious worship, and the city; from that day forward shall be a holy city. Such is, briefly, an outline of the second portion of that book which is commonly known as the Prophecy of Zechariah. Integrity .
- Mede was the first to call this in question. The probability that the later chapters, from the ninth to the fourteenth, were by some other prophet seems first to have been suggested to him by the citation in St. Matthew. He rests his opinion partly on the authority of St. Matthew and partly-on the contents of the later chapters, which he considers require a date earlier than the exile. Archbishop Newcombe went further. He insisted on the great dissimilarity of style as well as subject between the earlier and later chapters and he was the first who advocated the theory that the last six chapters of Zechariah are the work of two distinct prophets.
ZEDAD
- Z>@ - (mountain side), one of the landmarks on the north border of the land of Israel, as Promised by Moses, kjv@Numbers:34:8) and as restored by Ezekiel. kjv@Ezekiel:47:15) A place named Sudud exists to the east of the northern extremity of the chain of Anti
- Libanus, about fifty miles east-northeast of Baalbec . This may be identical with Zedad.
ZEDEKIAH
- Z>@ - (justice of Jehovah). The last king of Judah and Jerusalem. He was the son of Josiah by his wife Hamutal, and therefore own brother to Jehoahaz. ( kjv@2Kings:24:18) comp. 2Kin 23:31 His original name was Mattaniah, which was changed to Zedekiah by Nebuchadnezzar when he carried off his nephew Jehoiachim to Babylon and left him on the throne of Jerusalem. Zedekiah was but twenty-one years old when he was thus placed in charge of an impoverished kingdom, B.C. 597. His history is contained in a short sketch .of the events of his reign given in ( kjv@2Kings:24:17; kjv@2Kings:25:7) and, with some trifling variations in kjv@Jeremiah:39:1-7 kjv@Jeremiah:62:1-11) together with the still shorter summary in ( kjv@1Chronicles:38:10) etc.; and also in Jere 21-24,27-28-29,32-34,37-38 and kjv@Ezekiel:16:11-21) From these it is evident that Zedekiah was a man not so much bad at heart as weak in will. It is evident from Jere 27 and 28 that the earlier portion of Zedekiah’s reign was marked by an agitation throughout the whole of Syria against the Babylonian yoke. Jerusalem seems to have taken the lead, since in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign we find ambassadors from all the neighboring kingdoms
Tyre, Sidon, Edom and Moab
at his court to consult as to the steps to be taken. The first act of rebellion of which any record survives was the formation of an alliance with Egypt, of itself equivalent to a declaration of enmity with Babylon. As a natural consequence it brought on Jerusalem an immediate invasion of the Chaldaeans. The mention of this event in the Bible though indisputable, is extremely slight, and occurs only in kjv@Jeremiah:37:5-11 kjv@Jeremiah:34:21) and kjv@Ezekiel:17:15-20 But Josephus (x.7,3) relates it more fully, and gives the date of its occurrence, namely, the eighth year of Zedekiah. (B.C. 589.) Nebuchadnezzar at once sent an army to ravage Judea. This was done, and the whole country reduced, except Jerusalem and two strong places in the western plain, Lachish and Azekah, which still held out. kjv@Jeremiah:34:7) Called away for a time by an attack from Pharaoh and the Egyptians, on the tenth day of the tenth month of Zedekiah’s ninth year the Chaldeans were again before the walls. kjv@Jeremiah:52:4) From this time forward the siege progressed slowly but surely to its consummation, The city was indeed reduced to the last extremity. The bread had for long been consumed, kjv@Jeremiah:38:9) and all the terrible expedients had been tried to which the wretched inhabitants of a besieged town are forced to resort in such cases. At last, after sixteen dreadful months the catastrophe arrived. It was on the ninth day of the fourth month, about the middle of July at midnight, as Josephus with careful minuteness informs us, that the breach in those strong and venerable walls was effected. The moon, nine days old, had gone down. The wretched remnants of the army acquitted the city in the dead of night; and as the Chaldaean army entered the city at one end, the king and his wives fled from it by the opposite gate. They took the road toward the Jordan. As soon as the dawn of day permitted it, swift pursuit was made. The king’s party were overtaken near Jericho and carried to Nebuchadnezzar, who was then at Riblah, at the upper end of the valley of Lebanon. Nebuchadnezzar, with a refinement of barbarity characteristic of those cruel times ordered the sons of Zedekiah to be killed before him, and lastly his own eyes to be thrust out. He was then loaded with brazen fetters, and at a later period taken to Babylon, where he died. Son of Chenaanah, a false prophet at the court of Ahab, head, or, if not head, virtual leader, of the college. (B.C. 896.) He appears but once viz. as spokesman when the prophets are consulted by Ahab on the result of his proposed expedition to Ramoth-gilead. 1Kin 22; kjv@2Chronicals:18. Zedekiah had prepared himself for the interview with a pair of iron horns, with which he illustrated the manner in which Ahab should drive the Syrians before him. When Micaiah the prophet of the Lord appeared and had delivered his prophecy, Zedekiah sprang forward and struck him a blow on the face, accompanying it by a taunting sneer. The son of Maaseiah, a false prophet in Babylon. kjv@Jeremiah:29:21-22) He was denounced in the letter of Jeremiah for having, with Ahab the son of Kolaiah, buoyed up the people with false hopes, not for profane and flagitious conduct. Their names were to become a by-word, tend their terrible fate a warning. (B.C. 595.) The son of Hananiah, one of the princes of Judah in the time of Jeremiah. kjv@Jeremiah:38:12) (B.C. 605.)
ZEEB
- Z>@ - (wolf), one of the two "princes" of Midian in the great invasion of Israel. (B.C. about 1250.) He is always named with Oreb. kjv@Judges:7:25 kjv@Judges:8:3; kjv@Psalms:83:11) Zeeb and Oreb were not slain at the first rout of the Arabs, but at a later stage of the struggle, probably ill crossing the Jordan at a ford farther down the river. Zeeb, the wolf, was brought to bay in a wine-press which in later times bore his name
the "wine-press of Zeeb." OREB
ZELAH
- Z>@ - (a rib), a city in the allotment of Benjamin, kjv@Joshua:18:28) contained the family tomb of Kish, the father of Saul. (2 Samuel 21:14) Perhaps the same as ZELZAH
ZELOK
- Z>@ - (fissure), an Ammonite, one of David’s guard. (2 Samuel 23:37; kjv@1Chronicles:11:39)
ZELOPHEHAD
- Z>@ - (first-born), son of Zepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh. kjv@Joshua:17:3) (B.C. before 1450.) He was apparently the second son of Hepher. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:15) Zelophehad came out of Egypt with Moses, but died in the wilderness, as did the whole of that generation. kjv@Numbers:14:35 kjv@Numbers:27:3) On his death without male heirs, his five daughters, just after the second numbering in the wilderness, came before Moses and Eleazar to claim the inheritance of their father in the tribe of Manasseh. The claim was admitted by divine direction. kjv@Numbers:26:33 kjv@Numbers:27:1-11)
ZELOTES
- Z>@ - the epithet given to the apostle Simon to distinguish him from Simon Peter. kjv@Luke:6:15) CANAANITE, THE; SIMON, 5
ZELZAH
- Z>@ - (shadow), a place named once only, ( kjv@1Samuel:10:2) as on the boundary of Benjamin close to Rachel’s sepulchre, five miles southwest of Jerusalem.
ZEMARAIM
- Z>@ - (double fleece of wool), a town in the allotment of Benjamin, kjv@Joshua:18:22) perhaps identical with Mount Zemaraim, mentioned in ( kjv@2Chronicles:13:4) only, which was "in Mount Ephraim," that is to say, within the general district of the highlands of that great tribe. ( kjv@2Chronicles:13:4)
ZEMARITE, THE
- Z>@ - one of the Hamite tribes who in the genealogical table of kjv@Genesis:10:18) and 1Chr 1:16 Are represented as "sons of Canaan." Nothing is certainly known of this ancient tribe. The old interpreters place them at Emessa, the modern Hums .
ZEMIRA
- Z>@ - (a song), one of the sons of Becher the son of Benjamin. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:8) (B.C. after 1706.)
ZENAN
- Z>@ - (pointed), a town in the allotment of Judah, situated in the district of the Shefelah. kjv@Joshua:15:37) It is probably identical with ZAANAN. kjv@Micah:1:11)
ZENAS
- Z>@ - a believer, and, as may be inferred from the context, a preacher of the gospel, who is mentioned in kjv@Titus:3:13) in connection with Apollos. He is further described as "the lawyer." It is impossible to determine whether Zenas was a Roman jurisconsult or a Jewish doctor.
ZEPHANIAH
- Z>@ - (hidden by Jehovah). The ninth in order of the twelve minor prophets. His pedigree is traced to his fourth ancestor, Hezekiah, kjv@Zephaniah:1:1) supposed to be the celebrated king of that name. The chief characteristics of this book are the unity and harmony of the composition, the grace, energy and dignity of its style, and the rapid and effective alternations of threats and promises. The general tone of the last portion is Messianic, but without any specific reference to the person of our Lord. The date of the book is given in the inscription
viz, the reign of Josiah, from 642 to 611 B.C. It is most probable moreover, that the prophecy was delivered before the eighteenth year of Josiah. The son of Maaseiah, kjv@Jeremiah:21:1) and sagan or second priest in the reign of Zedekiah. (B.C. 588.) He succeeded Jehoida, kjv@Jeremiah:29:25-26) and was probably a ruler of the temple, whose office it was, among others, to punish pretenders to the gift of prophecy. kjv@Jeremiah:29:29) On the capture of Jerusalem he was taken and slain at Riblah. kjv@Jeremiah:52:24 kjv@Jeremiah:52:27 kjv@2Kings:25:18 kjv@2Kings:25:21) Father of Josiah, 2, kjv@Zechariah:6:10) and of Hen, according to the reading of the received text of kjv@Zechariah:6:14)
ZEPHATH
- Z>@ - (watch-tower), the earlier name, kjv@Judges:1:17) of a Canaanite town, which after its capture and destruction was called by the Israelites Hormah. HORMAH
ZEPHATHAH
- Z>@ - (watch-tower), The valley of, the spot in which Asa joined battle with Zerah the Ethiopian. ( kjv@2Chronicles:14:10) only.
ZEPHI
- Z>@ - ( kjv@1Chronicles:1:36) ZEPHO
ZEPHO
- Z>@ - (watch-tower), son of Eliphaz, son of Esau, kjv@Genesis:36:11) and one of the "dukes" or phylarchs of the Edomites. ver. kjv@Genesis:36:15) In ( kjv@1Chronicles:1:36) he is called ZEPHI. (B.C. after 1760.)
ZEPHON
- Z>@ - (watch), the son of Gad, kjv@Numbers:26:15) and ancestor of the family of the Zephonites. Called ZIPHION In kjv@Genesis:46:16) (B.C. 1706.)
ZER
- Z>@ - (flint), a fortified town in the allotment of Naphtali, kjv@Joshua:19:35) only, probably in the neighborhood of the southwest side of the Lake of Gennesareth.
ZERAH
- Z>@ - (rising (of the sun)). A son of Reuel, son of Esau, kjv@Genesis:36:13; kjv@1Chronicles:1:37) and one of the "dukes" or phylarchs of the Edomites. kjv@Genesis:36:17) (B.C. after 1760.) Less properly, Zarah, twin son, with his elder brother Pharez, of Judah and Tamar. kjv@Genesis:38:30; kjv@1Chronicles:2:4; kjv@Matthew:1:3) (B.C. about 1728.) His descendants were called Zarhites, Ezrahites and Izrahites. kjv@Numbers:26:20; kjv@Kings:4:31; kjv@1Chronicles:27:8 kjv@1Chronicles:27:11) Son of Simeon, ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:24) called ZOHAR in kjv@Genesis:46:10) (B.C. 1706.) A Gershonite Levite, son of Iddo or Adaiah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:21 kjv@1Chronicles:6:41) (B.C. 1043.) The Ethiopian or Cushite, an invader of Judah, defeated by Asa about B.C. 941. ASA Zerah is probably the Hebrew name of Usarken I., second king of the Egyptian twenty-second dynasty; or perhaps more probably Usarken II his second successor. In the fourteenth year of Asa, Zerah the Ethiopian, with a mighty army of or million, invaded his kingdom, and advanced unopposed in the field as far as the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. The Egyptian monuments enable us to picture the general disposition of Zerah’s army. The chariots formed the first corps in a single or double line; behind them, massed in phalanxes, were heavy-armed troops; probably on the flanks stood archers and horsemen in lighter formations. After a prayer by Asa, his army attacked the Egyptians and defeated them. The chariots, broken by the charge and with horses made unmanageable by flights of arrows must have been forced back upon the cumbrous host behind. So complete was the overthrow that the Hebrews could capture and spoil the cities around Gerah which must have been in alliance with Zerah. The defeat of the Egyptian army is without parallel in the history of the Jews. On no other occasion did an Israelite army meet an army of one of the great powers and defeat it.
ZERAHIAH
- Z>@ - (Jehovah has risen). A priest, son of Uzzi and ancestor of Ezra the scribe. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:6 kjv@1Chronicles:6:51 kjv@Ezra:7:4) Father of Elihoenai of the sons of Pahath-moab, whose descendants returned from the captivity with Ezra. kjv@Ezra:8:4)
ZERED
- Z>@ - (osier brook), (2:13-14) or Za’red, kjv@Numbers:21:12) a brook or valley running into the Dead Sea near its southeast corner, which Dr. Robinson with some probability suggests as identical with the Wady el
- Ahsy . It lay between Moab and Edom and is the limit of the proper term of the Israelites’ wandering. (2:14)
ZEREDA
- Z>@ - (the fortress) the native place of Jeroboam. (Kings:11:26) Zereda or Zeredah has been supposed to be identical with Zeredathah and Zarthan or Zartanah; but the last two were in the valley of the Jordan, while Zeredah was, according to the repeated statement of the LXX., on Mount Ephraim.
ZEREDATHAH
- Z>@ - ZARETAN, OR ZARTHAN, ZARTHAN
ZERERATH
- Z>@ - ZARETAN, OR ZARTHAN, ZARTHAN
ZERESH
- Z>@ - (gold), the wife of Haman the Agagite. kjv@Esther:5:10 kjv@Esther:5:14 kjv@Esther:6:13) (B.C. 475.)
ZERETH
- Z>@ - (splendor), son of Ashur, the founder of Tekoa, by his wife Helah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:7) (B.C. 1440.)
ZERI
- Z>@ - (built), one of the sons of Jeduthun in the reign of David. ( kjv@1Chronicles:25:3) (B.C. 1043.)
ZEROR
- Z>@ - (a bundle), a Benjamite, ancestor of Kish the father of Saul. ( kjv@1Samuel:9:1) (B.C. about 1730.)
ZERUAH
- Z>@ - (full breasted), the mother of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (Kings:11:26) (B.C. 973.)
ZERUBBABEL
- Z>@ - (born at Babel , i.e. Babylon), the head of the tribe of Judah at the time of the return from the Babylonish captivity in the first year of Cyrus. The history of Zerabbabel in the Scriptures is as follows: In the first year of Cyrus he was living at Babylon, and was the recognized prince of Judah in the captivity,
what in later times was called "the prince of the captivity," or "the prince." On the issuing of Cyrus’ decree he immediately availed himself of it, and placed himself at the head of those of his countrymen "whose spirit God had raised to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem." It is probable that he was in the king of Babylon’s service, both from his having, like Daniel and the three children, received a Chaldee name, Sheshbazzar, and from the fact that he was appointed by the Persian king to the office of governor of Judea. On arriving at Jerusalem, Zerubbabel’s great work, which he set about immediately, was the rebuilding of the temple. In the second month of the second year of the return the foundation was laid with all the pomp which could be commanded. The efforts of the Samaritans were successful in putting a stop to the work during the seven remaining years of the reign of Cyrus and through the eight years of Cambyses and Smerdis. Nor does Zerubbabel appear quite blameless for this long delay. The difficulties in the way of building the temple were not such as need have stopped the work and during this long suspension of sixteen years Zerubbabel and the rest of the people had been busy in building costly houses for themselves. But in the second year of Darius, light dawned upon the darkness of the colony from Babylon. In that year
it was the most memorable event in Zerabbabel’s life
the spirit of prophecy suddenly blazed up with a most brilliant light among the returned captives. Their words fell like sparks upon tinder. In a moment Zerubbabel roused from his apathy, threw his whole strength into the work. After much opposition see NEHEMIAH, THE BOOK OF and many hindrances find delays, the temple was at length finished, in the sixth pear of Darius, and was dedicated with much pomp and rejoicing. TEMPLE The only other works of Zerubbabel of which we learn from Scripture are the restoration of the courses of priests and Levites and of the provision for their maintenance, according to the institution of David kjv@Ezra:6:18; kjv@Nehemiah:12:47) the registering the returned captives according to their genealogies, kjv@Nehemiah:7:5) and the keeping of a Passover in the seventh year of Darius, with which last event ends all that we know of the life of Zerubbabel, His apocryphal history is told in 1 Esdr. 3-7. The exact parentage of Zerubbabel is a little obscure, from his being always called the son of Shealtiel, kjv@Ezra:3:2 kjv@Ezra:3:8 kjv@Ezra:5:2) etc.; kjv@Haggai:1:1 kjv@Haggai:1:12-14) etc., end appearing as such in the genealogies of Christ kjv@Matthew:1:12; kjv@Luke:3:27) whereas in ( kjv@1Chronicles:3:19) he is represented as the son of Pedaiah, Shealtiel or Salathiel’s brother, and consequently as Salathiel’s nephew. Zerubbabel was the legal successor and heir of Jeconiah’s royal estate, the grandson of Neri and the lineal descendant of Nathan the son of David. In the New Testament the name appears in the Greek form of Zorobabel.
ZERUIAH
- Z>@ - (balsam), the mother of the three leading heroes of David’s army
Abishai, Joah and Asahel
known as the "sons of Zeruiah." Of Zeruiah’s husband there is no mention in the Bible. (B.C. before 1046.)
ZETHAM
- Z>@ - (olive), the son of Laadan, a Gershonite Levite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:8) (B.C. 1043.)
ZETHAN
- Z>@ - (olive), a Benjamite of the sons of Bilhan. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:10) (B.C. probably 1014.)
ZETHAR
- Z>@ - (star), one of the seven eunuchs of Ahasuerus, kjv@Esther:1:10) (B.C. 453.)
ZIA
- Z>@ - (motion), one of the Gadites who dwelt in Bashan. ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:13) (B.C. 1014.)
ZIBA
- Z>@ - (statue), a servant of Saul whom David made steward of Saul’s son Mephibosheth. (2 Samuel kjv@9:2-18; 16:1-4; 19:17,29) MEPHIBOSHETH (B.C. 1023.)
ZIBEON
- Z>@ - (robber), father of Anah, whose daughter Aholibamah was Esau’s wife. kjv@Genesis:36:2) (B.C. 1797.) Although called a Hivite, he is probably the same as Zibeon the son of Seir the Horite. kjv@Genesis:36:20 kjv@Genesis:36:24,29; kjv@1Chronicles:1:38-40)
ZIBIA
- Z>@ - (roe), a Benjamite, apparently the son of Shaharaim by his wife Hodesh. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:9) (B.C. 1440.)
ZIBIAH
- Z>@ - (roe), a native of Beersheba and mother of King Joash. ( kjv@2Kings:12:1; kjv@2Chronicles:24:1) (B.C. 876)
ZICHRI
- Z>@ - (memorable). Son of Ishar the son of Kohath. kjv@Exodus:6:21) (B.C. 1401.) A Benjamite of the sons of Shimhi. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:19) (B.C. 1440.) A Benjamite of the sons of Shashak. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:23) A Benjamite of the sons of Jeroham. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:27) Son of Asaph, elsewhere called ZABDI and ZACCUB. ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:15) A descendant of Eliezer the son of Moses. ( kjv@1Chronicles:26:25) (B.C. before 1043.) The father of Eliezer, the chief of the Reubenites in the reign of David. ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:16) (B.C. before 1043.) One of the tribe of Judah, father of Amasiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:16) Father of Elishaphat, one of the conspirators with Jehoiada. ( kjv@2Chronicles:23:1) (B.C. before 876.) An Ephraimite hero in the invading army of Pekah the son of Remaliah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:28:7) (B.C. 734.) Father or ancestor of kjv@Joel:14. Nehemiah:11:9) A priest of the family of Abijah, in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua. kjv@Nehemiah:12:17) (B.C. 480.)
ZIDDIM
- Z>@ - (the declivities), a fortified town in the allotment of Naphtali, kjv@Joshua:10:35)
ZIDKIJAH
- Z>@ - (justice of Jehovah) a priest or family of priests who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:1) (B.C. 410.)
ZIDON, OR SIDON
- Z>@ - kjv@Genesis:10:15 kjv@Genesis:10:19 kjv@Joshua:11:8 kjv@Joshua:19:28; kjv@Judges:1:31 kjv@Judges:18:28; kjv@Isaiah:23:2-4 kjv@Isaiah:23:12 kjv@Jeremiah:25:22 kjv@Jeremiah:27:3; kjv@Ezekiel:28:21-22; kjv@Joel:3:4) kjv@Joel:4:4); kjv@Zechariah:9:2; kjv@Matthew:11:21-22 kjv@Matthew:15:21; kjv@Mark:3:8 kjv@Mark:1:24 kjv@Mark:1:31; kjv@Luke:6:17 kjv@Luke:10:13-14 An ancient and wealthy city of Phoenicia, on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, less than twenty English miles to the north of Tyre. Its Hebrew name, Tsidon , signifies fishing or fishery . Its modern name is Saida . It is situated in the narrow plain between the Lebanon and the sea. From a biblical point of view this city is inferior in interest to its neighbor Tyre; though in early times Sidon was the more influential of the two cities. This view is confirmed by Zidonians being used as the generic name of Phoenicians or Canaanites. kjv@Joshua:13:6; kjv@Judges:18:7) From the time of Solomon to the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar Zidon is not often directly mentioned in the Bible, and it appears to have been subordinate to Tyre. When the people called "Zidonians" are mentioned, it sometimes seems that the Phoenicians of the plain of Zidon are meant. (Kings:5:6; 11:1,5,33; 16:31; kjv@2Kings:23:13) All that is known are respecting the city is very scanty, amounting to scarcely more than that one of its sources of gain was trade in slaves, in which the inhabitants did not shrink from selling inhabitants of Palestine and that it was governed by kings. kjv@Jeremiah:25:22 kjv@Jeremiah:27:3) During the Persian domination Zidon seems to have attained its highest point of prosperity; and it is recorded that, toward the close of that period, it far excelled all other Phoenician cities in wealth and importance. Its prosperity was suddenly cut short by an unsuccessful revolt against Persia, which ended in the destruction of the town, B.C. 351. Its king, Tennes had proved a traitor and betrayed the city to Ochus, king of the Persians; the Persian troops were admitted within the gates, and occupied the city walls. The Zidonians, before the arrival of Ochus, had burnt their vessels to prevent any one’s leaving the town; and when they saw themselves surrounded by the Persian troops, they adopted the desperate resolution of shutting themselves up with their families, and setting fire each man to his own house. Forty thousand persons are said to have perished in the flames. Zidon however, gradually recovered from the blow, and became again a flourishing town. It is about fifty miles distant from Nazareth, and is the most northern city which is mentioned in connection with Christ’s journeys. (The town Saida still shows signs of its former wealth, and its houses are better constructed and more solid than those of Tyre, many of them being built of stone; but it is a poor, miserable place, without trade or manufactures worthy of the name. The city that once divided with Tyre the empire of the seas is now almost without a vessel. Silk and fruit are its staple products. Its population is estimated at 10,000, 7000 of whom are Moslems, and the rest Catholics, Maronites and Protestants.
McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia. There is a flourishing Protestant mission here.
ED.)
ZIDONIANS
- Z>@ - the inhabitants of Zidon. They were among the nations of Canaan; left to give the Israelites practice in the art of war, kjv@Judges:3:3) and colonies of them appear to have spread up into the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, kjv@Joshua:13:4-6) whence in later times they hewed cedar trees for David and Solomon. ( kjv@1Chronicles:22:4) They oppressed the Israelites on their first entrance into the country, kjv@Judges:10:12) and appear to have lived a luxurious, reckless life. kjv@Judges:18:7) They were skillful in hewing timber, (Kings:5:8) and were employed for this purpose by Solomon. They were idolaters, and worshipped Ashtoreth as their tutelary goddess, (Kings:11:5,33; kjv@2Kings:23:13) as well as the sun-god Baal from whom their king was named. (Kings:16:31)
ZIF
- Z>@ - (Kings:6:1) MONTH
ZIHA
- Z>@ - (parched). The children of Ziha were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:43; kjv@Nehemiah:7:46) (B.C. 536.) Chief of the Nethinim in Ophel. kjv@Nehemiah:11:21) The name is probably identical with the preceding.
ZIKLAG
- Z>@ - (winding), a place which possesses a special interest from its having been the residence and the private property of David. It is first mentioned in the catalogue of the towns of Judah in kjv@Joshua:15:31) and occurs, in the same connection among the places which were allotted out of the territory of Judah to Simeon. kjv@Joshua:19:5) We next encounter it in the possession of the Philistines ( kjv@1Samuel:27:6) when it was, at David’s request, bestowed upon him by Achish king of Gath. He resided there for a year and four months. ( kjv@1Samuel:27:6-7 kjv@1Samuel:30:14 kjv@1Samuel:30:26; kjv@1Chronicles:12:1-20) It was there he received the news of Saul’s death. (2 Samuel kjv@1:1; 4:10) He then relinquished it for Hebron. (2 Samuel kjv@2:1) Ziklag is finally mentioned as being reinhabited by the people of Judah after their return from captivity. kjv@Nehemiah:11:28) The situation of the town is difficult to determine, and we only know for certain that it was in the south country.
ZILLAH
- Z>@ - (shade). LAMECH
ZILPAH
- Z>@ - (a trickling), a Syrian given by Laban to his daughter Leah as an attendant, kjv@Genesis:29:24) and by Leah to Jacob as a concubine. She was the mother of Gad and Asher. kjv@Genesis:30:9-13 kjv@Genesis:35:26 kjv@Genesis:37:2 ; 46:18) (B.C. 1753.)
ZILTHAI
- Z>@ - (shady). A Benjamite, of the sons of Shimhi. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:20) One of the captains of thousands of Manasseh who deserted to David at Ziklag. ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:20) (B.C. 1054.)
ZIMMAH
- Z>@ - (purpose). A Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:20) (B.C. after 1706.) Another Gershonite, son of Shimei, ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:42) possibly the same as the preceding. Father of ancestor of Joab, a Gershonite in the reign of Hezekiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:29:12) (B.C. before 726.) At a much earlier period we find the same collocation of names, Zimmah and Joah as father and son. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:20)
ZIMRAN
- Z>@ - (celebrated), the eldest son of Keturah. kjv@Genesis:25:2; kjv@1Chronicles:1:32) His descendants are not mentioned, nor is any hint given that he was the founder of a tribe. (B.C. 1855.)
ZIMRI
- Z>@ - The son of Salu, a Simeonite chieftain, slain by Phinehas with the Midianitish princess Cozbi. kjv@Numbers:25:14). (B.C. 1450.) Fifth sovereign of the separate kingdom of Israel, of which he occupied the throne for the brief period of seven days, B.C. 930 or 929. Originally in command of half the chariots in the royal army, he gained the crown by the murder of King Elah; son of Baasha. But the army made their general, Omri, king, who marched against Tirzah, where Zimri was. Zimri retreated into the innermost part of the late king’s palace, set it on fire, and perished in the ruins. (Kings:16:9-20) One of the five sons of Zerah the son of Judah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:6) (B.C. after 1706.) Son of Jehoadah and descendant of Saul. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:36 kjv@1Chronicles:9:42) An obscure name, mentioned kjv@Jeremiah:25:25) in probable connection with Dedan, Tema, Buz, Arabia, the "mingled people." Nothing further is known respecting Zimri, but the name may possibly be the same as, or derived from, ZIMRAN, which see.
ZIN
- Z>@ - (flat), the name given to a portion of the desert tract between the Dead Sea, Ghor , and Arabah on the east, and the general plateau of the Tih which stretches westward. The country in question consists of two or three successive terraces of mountain converging to an acute single at the Dead Sea’s southern verge, toward which also they slope. Kadesh lay in it, and here also Idumea was conterminous with Judah; since Kadesh was a city in the border of Edom.
See KADESH, KADESHBARNEA. kjv@Numbers:13:21 kjv@Numbers:20:1 kjv@Numbers:27:14 ; 33:36; 34:3; kjv@Joshua:15:1)
ZINA
- Z>@ - (abundance); Zizah, the second son of Shimei the Gershonite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:10) comp. 1Chr 23:11
ZION
- Z>@ - JERUSALEM
ZIOR
- Z>@ - (smallness), a town in the mountain district of Judah. kjv@Joshua:15:54) It belongs to the same group with Hebron.
ZIPH
- Z>@ - (battlement), the name of two towns in Judah. In the south, named between Ithnan and Telem. kjv@Joshua:15:24) It does not appear again in the history, nor has any trace of has been met with. In the highland district, named between Carmel and Juttah. kjv@Joshua:15:55) The place is immortalized by its connection with David. ( kjv@1Samuel:23:14-15 kjv@1Samuel:23:24 kjv@1Samuel:26:2) These passages show that at that time it had near it a wilderness (i,e, a waste pasture-ground) and a wood. The latter has disappeared but the former remains. The name of Zif if, found about three miles south of Hebron, attached to a rounded hill of some 100 feet in height, which is called Tell Zif . Son of Jehaleleel. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:16)
ZIPHAH
- Z>@ - (feminine of Ziph), another son of Jehaleleel. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:16)
ZIPHIM, THE
- Z>@ - the inhabitants of ZIPH, 2. In this form the name is found in the Authorized Version only in the title of kjv@Psalms:54:1) In the narrative it occurs in the more usual form of ZIPHITES. ( kjv@1Samuel:23:19 kjv@1Samuel:26:1)
ZIPHION
- Z>@ - son of Gad kjv@Genesis:46:18) elsewhere called Zephon.
ZIPHRAN
- Z>@ - (fragrance), appoint in the north boundary of the promised land as specified by Moses. kjv@Numbers:34:9)
ZIPPOR
- Z>@ - (sparrow), father of Balak king of Moab. kjv@Numbers:22:2-4 kjv@Numbers:22:10,16; 23:18; kjv@Joshua:24:9; kjv@Judges:11:25) Whether he was the "former king of Moab" alluded to in kjv@Numbers:21:26) we are not told. (B.C. 1451.)
ZIPPORAH, OR ZIPPORAH
- Z>@ - daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the priest of Midian, wife of Moses and mother of his two sons Gershom and Eliezer. kjv@Exodus:2:21 kjv@Exodus:4:25 kjv@Exodus:18:2 ) comp. Exod 18:6 (B.C. 1530.) The only incident recorded in her life is that of the circumcision of Gershom. kjv@Exodus:4:24-28)
ZITHRI
- Z>@ - (protection of Jehovah), properly Sithri; one of the sons of Uzziel the son of Kohath. kjv@Exodus:6:22) In kjv@Exodus:6:21) Zithri should be Zichri, as in Authorized Version of 1611.
ZIZ
- Z>@ - (the projection), The cliff of, the pass by which the horde of Moabites, Ammonites and Mehunim made their way up from the shores of the Dead Sea to the wilderness of Judah near Tekoa. ( kjv@2Chronicles:20:16) only; comp. kjv@2Chronicals:20:20 It was the pass of Ain Jidy
the very same route which is taken by the Arabs in their marauding expeditions at the present day.
ZIZA
- Z>@ - (shining). Son of Shiphi, a chief of the Simeonites in the reign of Hezekiah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:37) (B.C. about 725.) Son of Rehoboam by Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom. ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:20) (B.C. after 973.)
ZIZAH
- Z>@ - a Gershonite Levite, second son of Shimei, ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:11) called ZINA in ver. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:10)
ZOAN
- Z>@ - (place of departure), an ancient city of lower Egypt, called Tanis by the Greeks. It stood on the eastern bank of the Tanitic branch of the Nile. Its name indicates a place of departure from a country, and hence it has been identified with Avaris (Tanis, the modern San), the capital of the Shepherd dynasty in Egypt, built seven years after Hebron and existing before the time of Abraham. It was taken by the Shepherd kings in their invasion of Egypt, and by them rebuilt, and garrisoned, according to Manetho, with 240,000 men. This cite is mentioned in connection with the plagues in such a manner as to leave no doubt that it is the city spoken of in the narrative in Exodus as that where Pharaoh dwelt, kjv@Psalms:78:42-43) and where Moses wrought his wonders on the field of Zoan a rich plain extending thirty miles toward the east. Tanis gave its name to the twenty-first and twenty-third dynasties and hence its mention in Isaiah. kjv@Isaiah:19:13 kjv@Isaiah:30:4) (The present "field of Zoan" is a barren waste, very thinly inhabited. "One of the principal capitals of Pharaoh is now the habitation of fishermen the resort of wild beasts, and infested with reptiles and malignant fevers." There have been discovered a great number of monuments here which throw light upon the Bible history. Brugsch refers to two statues of colossal size of Mermesha of the thirteenth dynasty, wonderfully perfect in the execution of the individual parts and says that memorials of Rameses the Great lie scattered broadcast like the mouldering bones of generations slain long ago. The area of the sacred enclosure of the temple Isaiah:1500 feet by 1250.
- ED.)
ZOAR
- Z>@ - (smallness), one of the most ancient cities of the land of Canaan. Its original name was BELA. kjv@Genesis:14:2 kjv@Genesis:14:8) It was in intimate connection with the cities of the "plain of Jordan"
Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim,
See also kjv@Genesis:13:10) but not kjv@Genesis:10:19 In the general destruction of the cities of the plain Zoar was spared to afford shelter to Lot. kjv@Genesis:19:22-23 kjv@Genesis:19:30) It is mentioned in the account of the death of Moses as one (of the landmarks which bounded his view from Pisgah, (34:3) and it appears to have been known in the time both of Isaiah, kjv@Isaiah:15:5) and Jeremiah. kjv@Jeremiah:48:34) These are all the notices of Zoar contained in the Bible. It was situated in the same district with the four cities already mentioned, viz. in the "plain" or "circle" of the Jordan, and the narrative of kjv@Genesis:19:1)... evidently implies that it was very near to Sodom. vs. kjv@Genesis:19:15 kjv@Genesis:23:27) The definite position of Sodom is, and probably will always be, a mystery; but there can be little doubt that the plain of the Jordan was at the north side of the Dead Sea and that the cities of the plain must therefore have been situated there instead of at the southern end of the lake, as it is generally taken for granted they were. SODOM (But the great majority of scholars from Josephus and Eusebius to the present of the Dead Sea.)
ZOBA, OR ZOBAH
- Z>@ - (station), the name of a portion of Syria which formed a separate kingdom in the time of the Jewish monarchs Saul, David and Solomon. It probably was eastward of Coele
- Syria, and extended thence northeast and east toward, if not even to, the Euphrates. We first hear of Zobah in the time of Saul, when we find it mentioned as a separate country, governed apparently by a number of kings who owned no common head or chief. ( kjv@1Samuel:14:47) Some forty years later than this we find Zobah under a single ruler Hadadezer son of Rehob. He had wars with Toi king of Hamath, (2 Samuel kjv@8:10) and held various petty Syrian princes as vassals under his yoke. (2 Samuel 10:19) David, (2 Samuel kjv@8:3) attacked Hadadezer in the early part of his reign, defeated his army, and took from him a thousand chariots, seven hundred (seven thousand,) ( kjv@1Chronicles:18:4) horsemen and 20,000 footmen. Hadadezer’s allies, the Syrians of Damascus, were defeated in a great battle. The wealth of Zobah is very apparent in the narrative of this campaign. A man of Zobah, Rezon son of Eliadah, made himself master of Damascus where he proved a fierce adversary to Israel all through the reign of Solomon. (Kings:11:23-25) Solomon also was, it would seem engaged in a war with Zobah itself. ( kjv@2Chronicles:8:3) This is the last that we hear of Zobah in Scripture. The name however, is found at a later date in the inscriptions of Assyria, where the kingdom of Zobah seems to intervene between Hamath and Damascus.
ZOBEBAH
- Z>@ - (the slow), son of Coz, of the tribe of Judah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:8)
ZOHAR
- Z>@ - (light). Father of Ephron the Hittite. kjv@Genesis:23:8 kjv@Genesis:25:9) (B.C. before 1860.) One of the sons of Simeon kjv@Genesis:46:10; kjv@Exodus:6:15) called ZARAH, OR ZERAH, ZERAH in ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:24)
ZOHELETH
- Z>@ - (serpent), The stone, This was "by En-rogel," (Kings:1:9) and therefore, if En-rogel be the modern Um-ed
- Deraj , this stone, "where Adonijah slew sheep and oxen," was in all likelihood not far from the well of the Virgin.
ZOHETH
- Z>@ - son of Ishi of the tribe of Judah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:20)
ZOPHAH
- Z>@ - (a cruse) son of Helem or Hotham the son of Heber, an Asherite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:35-36)
ZOPHAI
- Z>@ - (descended from Zuph), a Kohathite Levite, son of Elkanah and ancestor of Samuel. ( kjv@2Chronicles:6:26)
(11). In ver. 35 he is called ZUPH.
ZOPHAR
- Z>@ - (sparrow), one of the three friends of Job. kjv@Job:2:11 kjv@Job:11:1 kjv@Job:20:1 ; 42:9)
ZOPHIM
- Z>@ - (watchers), The field of, a spot on or near the top of Pisgah, from which Balaam had his second view of the encampment of Israel. kjv@Numbers:23:14) The position of the field of Zophim is not defined. Possibly it is the same place which later in the history is mentioned as Mizpah-moab.
ZORAH
- Z>@ - (hornet), a town in the allotment of the tribe of Dan, kjv@Joshua:19:41) It is previously mentioned ch. kjv@Joshua:15:33) in the catalogue of Judah, among the places in the district of the Shefelah (Authorized Version "Zoreah"), It was the residence of Manoah and the native place of Samson. It is mentioned among the places fortified by Rehoboam. ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:10) It is perhaps identical with the modern village of Sur’ah .
ZORATHITES, THE
- Z>@ - i.e. the people of Zorah, mentioned in ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:2) as descended from Shobal.
ZOREAH
- Z>@ - ZORAH
ZORITES, THE
- Z>@ - are named in the genealogies of Judah, ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:54) apparently among the descendants of Salma and near connections of Joab.
ZOROBABEL
- Z>@ - kjv@Matthew:1:12-13; kjv@Luke:3:27) ZERUBBABEL
ZUAR
- Z>@ - (littleness), father of Nethaneel the chief of the tribe of Issachar at the time of the exodus. kjv@Numbers:1:8 kjv@Numbers:2:5 kjv@Numbers:7:18 ,23; 10:15) (B.C. 2491.)
ZUPH
- Z>@ - (honeycomb), The land of, a district at which Saul and his servant arrived after passing through the possessions of Shalisha, of Shalim and of the Benjamites. ( kjv@1Samuel:9:5) only. It evidently contained the city in which they encountered Samuel, ver. 6, and that again was certainly not far from the "tomb of Rachel." It may perhaps be identified with Soba, a well-known place about seven miles due west of Jerusalem.
ZUPH
- Z>@ - a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. ( kjv@1Samuel:1:1; kjv@1Chronicles:6:35) In ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:26) he is called ZOPHAI.
ZUR
- Z>@ - (a rock). Father of Cozbi, kjv@Numbers:25:15) and one of the five princes of Midian who were slain by the Israelites when Balaam fell. kjv@Numbers:31:8) (B.C. 1451.) Son of Jehiel, the founder of Gideon. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:30 kjv@1Chronicles:9:36), (B.C. after 1445.)
ZURIEL
- Z>@ - (my rock is God) son of Abihail, and chief of the Merarite Levites at the time of the exodus. kjv@Numbers:3:35)
ZURISHADDAI
- Z>@ - (my rock is the Almighty), father of Shelumiel, the chief of the tribe of Simeon at the time of the exodus. kjv@Numbers:1:6 kjv@Numbers:2:12 kjv@Numbers:7:36 ,41; 10:19)
ZUZIM, THE
- Z>@ - An ancient people who, lying in the path of Chedorlaomer and his allies, were attacked and overthrown by them. kjv@Genesis:14:5) The Zuzim perhaps inhabited the country of the Ammonites, who were identical with the Zamzummim, who are known to have ben exterminated and succeeded in their land by the Ammonites ZAMZUMMIM.
easton:
Zaanaim @ wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in Naphtali. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, "the wife of Heber the Kenite," who had pitched his tent in the "plain [R.V., 'as far as the oak'] of Zaanaim" kjv@Judges:4:11). It has been, however, suggested by some that, following the LXX. and the Talmud, the letter b, which in Hebrew means "in," should be taken as a part of the word following, and the phrase would then be "unto the oak of Bitzanaim," a place which has been identified with the ruins of Bessum, about half-way between Tiberias and Mount Tabor.
Zaanan @ place of flocks, mentioned only in kjv@Micah:1:11. It may be identified with Zenan, in the plain country of Judah kjv@Joshua:15:37).
Zaanannim @ =Zaanaim, kjv@Joshua:19:33).
Zaavan @ terror, one of the "dukes of Edom" kjv@Genesis:36:27); called also Zavan ( kjv@1Chronicles:1:42).
Zabad @ gift.
(1.) One of David's valiant men ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:41), the descendant of Ahlai, of the "children of Sheshan" (2:31).
(2.) A descendant of Tahath (7:21).
(3.) The son of Shemath. He conspired against Joash, king of Judah, and slew him ( kjv@2Chronicals:24:25-26). He is called also Jozachar ( kjv@2Kings:12:21).
(4.) kjv@Ezra:10:27.
(5.) kjv@Ezra:10:33.
(6.) kjv@Ezra:10:43.
Zabbai @ wanderer; pure.
(1.) kjv@Ezra:10:28.
(2.) The father of Baruch, who "earnestly repaired" part of the wall of Jerusalem kjv@Nehemiah:3:20; marg., "Zaccai").
Zabbud @ gift, kjv@Ezra:8:14.
Zabdi @ gift of Jehovah.
(1.) An ancestor of Achan kjv@Joshua:7:1 kjv@Joshua:7:17, 18). He is probably the "Zimri" of kjv@1Chronicles:2:6.
(2.) A Benjamite ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:19).
(3.) Called "the Shiphmite," one of David's officers, who had charge of his vineyards ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:27).
(4.) A Levite, one of the sons of Asaph kjv@Nehemiah:11:17); probably the same as Zichri ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:15), and Zaccur kjv@Nehemiah:12:35).
Zabdiel @ gift of God.
(1.) The father of Jashobeam, who was one of David's officers ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:2).
(2.) An overseer of the priests after the Captivity kjv@Nehemiah:11:14).
Zabud @ gift, the son of Nathan, who was "king's friend" in the court of Solomon (kjvKings:4:5).
Zabulon @ kjv@Matthew:4:13-15; kjv@Revelation:7:8).
See ZEBULUN.
Zaccai @ pure, one whose "sons" returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem kjv@Ezra:2:9; kjv@Nehemiah:7:14). (
See ZABBAI.)
Zacchaeus @ pure, a superintendant of customs; a chief tax-gather (publicanus) at Jericho kjv@Luke:19:1-10). "The collection of customs at Jericho, which at this time produced and exported a considerable quantity of balsam, was undoubtedly an important post, and would account for Zacchaeus being a rich man." Being short of stature, he hastened on before the multitude who were thronging about Christ as he passed through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem, and climbed up a sycamore tree that he might be able to see him. When our Lord reached the spot he looked up to the publican among the branches, and addressing him by name, told him to make haste and come down, as he intended that day to abide at his house. This led to the remarkable interview recorded by the evangelist, and to the striking parable of the ten pounds kjv@Luke:19:12-27). At Er-riha (Jericho) there is a large, venerable looking square tower, which goes by the traditional name of the House of Zacchaeus.
Zaccur @ mindful.
(1.) Father of Shammua, who was one of the spies sent out by Moses kjv@Numbers:13:4).
(2.) A Merarite Levite ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:27).
(3.) A son of Asaph, and chief of one of the courses of singers as arranged by David ( kjv@1Chronicles:25:2 kjv@1Chronicles:25:10).
(4.) Son of Imri kjv@Nehemiah:3:2).
(5.) A Levite kjv@Nehemiah:10:12).
(6.) The son of Mattaniah kjv@Nehemiah:13:13).
Zachariah @ remembered by the Lord.
(1.) Son of Jeroboam II., king of Israel. On the death of his father there was an interregnum of ten years, at the end of which he succeeded to the throne, which he occupied only six months, having been put to death by Shallum, who usurped the throne. "He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done" ( kjv@2Kings:14:29 kjv@2Kings:15:8-12). In him the dynasty of Jehu came to an end.
(2.) The father of Abi, who was the mother of Hezekiah ( kjv@2Kings:18:2).
Zacharias @
(1.) A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:1-19). Only four of these courses or "families" of the priests returned from the Exile kjv@Ezra:2:36-39); but they were then re-distributed under the old designations. The priests served at the temple twice each year, and only for a week each time. Zacharias's time had come for this service. During this period his home would be one of the chambers set apart for the priests on the sides of the temple ground. The offering of incense was one of the most solemn parts of the daily worship of the temple, and lots were drawn each day to determine who should have this great honour, an honour which no priest could enjoy more than once during his lifetime. While Zacharias ministered at the golden altar of incense in the holy place, it was announced to him by the angel Gabriel that his wife Elisabeth, who was also of a priestly family, now stricken in years, would give birth to a son who was to be called John, and that he would be the forerunner of the long-expected Messiah kjv@Luke:1:12-17). As a punishment for his refusing to believe this message, he was struck dumb and "not able to speak until the day that these things should be performed"
(20). Nine months passed away, and Elisabeth's child was born, and when in answer to their inquiry Zacharias wrote on a "writing tablet," "His name is John," his mouth was opened, and he praised God (60-79). The child (John the Baptist), thus "born out of due time," "waxed strong in spirit" (1:80).
(2.) The "son of Barachias," mentioned as having been slain between the temple and the altar kjv@Matthew:23:35; kjv@Luke:11:51). "Barachias" here may be another name for Jehoiada, as some think. (
See ZECHARIAH.)
Zacher @ memorial, a son of Jehiel ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:31 kjv@1Chronicles:9:35); called Zechariah (9:37).
Zadok @ righteous.
(1.) A son of Ahitub, of the line of Eleazer ( kjv@2Samuel:8:17; kjv@1Chronicles:24:3), high priest in the time of David ( kjv@2Samuel:20:25) and Solomon (kjvKings:4:4). He is first mentioned as coming to take part with David at Hebron ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:27-28). He was probably on this account made ruler over the Aaronites (27:17). Zadok and Abiathar acted as high priests on several important occasions ( kjv@1Chronicles:15:11; kjv@2Samuel:15:24-29, 35, 36); but when Adonijah endeavoured to secure the throne, Abiathar went with him, and therefore Solomon "thrust him out from being high priest," and Zadok, remaining faithful to David, became high priest alone (kjvKings:2:27,35; kjv@1Chronicles:29:22). In him the line of Phinehas resumed the dignity, and held it till the fall of Jerusalem. He was succeeded in his sacred office by his son Azariah (kjvKings:4:2; comp. kjv@1Chronicles:6:3-9).
(2.) The father of Jerusha, who was wife of King Uzziah, and mother of King Jotham ( kjv@2Kings:15:33; kjv@2Chronicals:27:1).
(3.) "The scribe" set over the treasuries of the temple by Nehemiah along with a priest and a Levite kjv@Nehemiah:13:13).
(4.) The sons of Baana, one of those who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem kjv@Nehemiah:3:4).
Zair @ little, a place probably east of the Dead Sea, where Joram discomfited the host of Edom who had revolted from him ( kjv@2Kings:8:21).
Zalmon @ shady.
(1.) One of David's warriors, called the Ahohite ( kjv@2Samuel:23:28); called also Ilai ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:29).
(2.) A wood near Shechem, from which Abimelech and his party brought boughs and "put them to the hold" of Shechem, "and set the hold on fire" kjv@Judges:9:48). Probably the southern peak of Gerizim, now called Jebel Sulman. (
See SALMON.)
Zalmonah @ shady, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness kjv@Numbers:33:41-42).
Zalmunna @ one of the two kings of Midian whom the "Lord delivered" into the hands of Gideon. He was slain afterwards with Zebah kjv@Judges:8:5-21). (
See ZEBAH.)
Zamzummims @ a race of giants; "a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims" kjv@Deuteronomy:2:20-21). They were overcome by the Ammonites, "who called them Zamzummims." They belonged to the Rephaim, and inhabited the country afterwards occupied by the Ammonites. It has been conjectured that they might be Ham-zuzims, i.e., Zuzims dwelling in Ham, a place apparently to the south of Ashteroth kjv@Genesis:14:5), the ancient Rabbath-ammon.
Zanoah @ marsh.
(1.) A town in the low country or shephelah of Judah, near Zorah kjv@Joshua:15:34). It was re-occupied after the return from the Captivity kjv@Nehemiah:11:30). Zanu'ah in Wady Ismail, 10 miles west of Jerusalem, occupies probably the same site.
(2.) A town in the hill country of Judah, some 10 miles to the south-west of Hebron kjv@Joshua:15:56).
Zaphnath-paaneah @ the name which Pharaoh gave to Joseph when he raised him to the rank of prime minister or grand vizier of the kingdom kjv@Genesis:41:45). This is a pure Egyptian word, and has been variously explained. Some think it means "creator," or "preserver of life." Brugsch interprets it as "governor of the district of the place of life", i.e., of Goshen, the chief city of which was Pithom, "the place of life." Others explain it as meaning "a revealer of secrets," or "the man to whom secrets are revealed."
Zarephath @ smelting-shop, "a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals", a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah sojourned with a poor widow during the "great famine," when the "heaven was shut up three years and six months" kjv@Luke:4:26; kjvKings:17:10). It is called Sarepta in the New Testament kjv@Luke:4:26).
Zaretan @ When the Hebrews crossed the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the priests were dipped in the water, the flow of the stream was arrested. The point of arrest was the "city of Adam beside Zaretan," probably near Succoth, at the mouth of the Jabbok, some 30 miles up the river from where the people were encamped. There the water "stood and rose upon an heap." Thus the whole space of 30 miles of the river-bed was dry, that the tribes might pass over kjv@Joshua:3:16-17; comp. kjv@Psalms:104:3).
Zareth-shahar @ the splendour of the dawn, a city "in the mount of the valley" kjv@Joshua:13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Of this town but little remains. "A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the plain, are all that are left" (Tristram's Land of Moab).
Zarthan @ a place near Succoth, in the plain of the Jordan, "in the clay ground," near which Hiram cast the brazen utensils for the temple (kjvKings:7:46); probably the same as Zartan. It is also called Zeredathah ( kjv@2Chronicals:4:17). (
See ZEREDA.)
Zatthu @ a sprout, kjv@Nehemiah:10:14.
Zattu @ id., one whose descendants returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel kjv@Ezra:2:8; kjv@Nehemiah:7:13); probably the same as Zatthu.
Zaza @ plenty, a descendant of Judah ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:33).
Zeal @ an earnest temper; may be enlightened kjv@Numbers:25:11-13; kjv@2Corinthians:7:11 kjv@2Corinthians:9:2), or ignorant and misdirected kjv@Romans:10:2; kjv@Philippians:3:6). As a Christian grace, it must be grounded on right principles and directed to right ends kjv@Galatians:4:18). It is sometimes ascribed to God ( kjv@2Kings:19:31; kjv@Isaiah:9:7 kjv@Isaiah:37:32; kjv@Ezekiel:5:13).
Zealots @ a sect of Jews which originated with Judas the Gaulonite kjv@Acts:5:37). They refused to pay tribute to the Romans, on the ground that this was a violation of the principle that God was the only king of Israel. They rebelled against the Romans, but were soon scattered, and became a lawless band of mere brigands. They were afterwards called Sicarii, from their use of the sica, i.e., the Roman dagger.
Zebadiah @ gift of Jehovah.
(1.) A son of Asahel, Joab's brother ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:7).
(2.) A Levite who took part as one of the teachers in the system of national education instituted by Jehoshaphat ( kjv@2Chronicals:17:7-8).
(3.) The son of Ishmael, "the ruler of the house of Judah in all the king's matters" ( kjv@2Chronicals:19:8-11).
(4.) A son of Beriah ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:15).
(5.) A Korhite porter of the Lord's house ( kjv@1Chronicles:26:2). Three or four others of this name are also mentioned.
Zebah @ man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory Judges:8). Zebah and Zalmunna had succeeded in escaping across the Jordan with a remnant of the Midianite host, but were overtaken at Karkor, probably in the Hauran, and routed by Gideon. The kings were taken alive and brought back across the Jordan; and confessing that they had personally taken part in the slaughter of Gideon's brothers, they were put to death (comp. kjv@1Samuel:12:11; kjv@Isaiah:10:26; kjv@Psalms:83:11).
Zebaim @ kjv@Ezra:2:57; kjv@Nehemiah:7:59). "Pochereth of Zebaim" should be read as in the Revised Version, "Pochereth-hazzebaim" ("snaring the antelopes"), probably the name of some hunter.
Zebedee @ a Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q.v.), and the father of James and John, two of our Lord's disciples kjv@Matthew:4:21 kjv@Matthew:27:56; kjv@Mark:15:40). He seems to have been a man of some position in Capernaum, for he had two boats kjv@Luke:5:4) and "hired servants" kjv@Mark:1:20) of his own. No mention is made of him after the call of his two sons by Jesus.
Zeboim @ gazelles or roes.
(1.) One of the "five cities of the plain" of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah kjv@Genesis:10:19 kjv@Genesis:14:2; kjv@Deuteronomy:29:23; kjv@Hosea:11:8). It had a king of its own (Shemeber), and was therefore a place of some importance. It was destroyed along with the other cities of the plain.
(2.) A valley or rugged glen somewhere near Gibeah in Benjamin ( kjv@1Samuel:13:18). It was probably the ravine now bearing the name Wady Shakh-ed
- Dub'a, or "ravine of the hyena," north of Jericho.
(3.) A place mentioned only in kjv@Nehemiah:11:34, inhabited by the Benjamites after the Captivity.
Zebudah @ given, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoiakim ( kjv@2Kings:23:36).
Zebul @ habitation, the governor of Shechem under Abimelech kjv@Judges:9:28-30, 36). He informed his master of the intention of the people of Shechem to transfer their allegiance to the Hivite tribe of Hamor. This led to Abimelech's destroying the city, when he put its entire population to the sword, and sowed the ruins with salt kjv@Judges:9:28-45).
Zebulonite @ the designation of Elon, the judge who belonged to the tribe of Zebulun kjv@Judges:12:11-12).
Zebulun @ dwelling, the sixth and youngest son of Jacob and Leah kjv@Genesis:30:20). Little is known of his personal history. He had three sons (46:14).
Zebulun, Lot of @ in Galilee, to the north of Issachar and south of Asher and Naphtali kjv@Joshua:19:10-16), and between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean. According to ancient prophecy this part of Galilee enjoyed a large share of our Lord's public ministry kjv@Isaiah:9:1-2; kjv@Matthew:4:12-16).
Zebulun, Tribe of @ numbered at Sinai kjv@Numbers:1:31) and before entering Canaan (26:27). It was one of the tribes which did not drive out the Canaanites, but only made them tributary kjv@Judges:1:30). It took little interest in public affairs. It responded, however, readily to the summons of Gideon (6:35), and afterwards assisted in enthroning David at Hebron ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:33-40). Along with the other northern tribes, Zebulun was carried away into the land of Assyria by Tiglath-pileser ( kjv@2Kings:15:29). In Deborah's song the words, "Out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer" kjv@Judges:5:14) has been rendered in the R.V., "They that handle the marshal's staff." This is a questionable rendering. "The word sopher ('scribe' or 'writer') defines the word shebhet ('rod' or 'pen') with which it is conjoined. The 'rod of the scribe' on the Assyrian monuments was the stylus of wood or metal, with the help of which the clay tablet was engraved, or the papyrus inscribed with characters. The scribe who wielded it was the associate and assistant of the 'lawgivers.'" (Sayce).
Zechariah @ Jehovah is renowned or remembered.
(1.) A prophet of Judah, the eleventh of the twelve minor prophets. Like Ezekiel, he was of priestly extraction. He describes himself (1:1) as "the son of Berechiah." In kjv@Ezra:5:1 and 6:14 he is called "the son of Iddo," who was properly his grandfather. His prophetical career began in the second year of Darius (B.C. 520), about sixteen years after the return of the first company from exile. He was contemporary with Haggai kjv@Ezra:5:1). His book consists of two distinct parts,
(1) chapters 1 to 8, inclusive, and
(2) 9 to the end. It begins with a preface (1:1-6), which recalls the nation's past history, for the purpose of presenting a solemn warning to the present generation. Then follows a series of eight visions (1:7-6:8), succeeding one another in one night, which may be regarded as a symbolical history of Israel, intended to furnish consolation to the returned exiles and stir up hope in their minds. The symbolical action, the crowning of Joshua (6:9-15), describes how the kingdoms of the world become the kingdom of God's Christ. Chapters 7 and 8, delivered two years later, are an answer to the question whether the days of mourning for the destruction of the city should be any longer kept, and an encouraging address to the people, assuring them of God's presence and blessing. The second part of the book (ch. 9-14) bears no date. It is probable that a considerable interval separates it from the first part. It consists of two burdens. The first burden (ch. 9-11) gives an outline of the course of God's providential dealings with his people down to the time of the Advent. The second burden (ch. 12-14) points out the glories that await Israel in "the latter day", the final conflict and triumph of God's kingdom.
(2.) The son or grandson of Jehoiada, the high priest in the times of Ahaziah and Joash. After the death of Jehoiada he boldly condemned both the king and the people for their rebellion against God ( kjv@2Chronicals:24:20), which so stirred up their resentment against him that at the king's commandment they stoned him with stones, and he died "in the court of the house of the Lord" (24:21). Christ alludes to this deed of murder in kjv@Matthew:23:35, kjv@Luke:11:51. (
See ZACHARIAS 2.)
(3.) A prophet, who had "understanding in the seeing of God," in the time of Uzziah, who was much indebted to him for his wise counsel ( kjv@2Chronicals:26:5). Besides these, there is a large number of persons mentioned in Scripture bearing this name of whom nothing is known.
(4.) One of the chiefs of the tribe of Reuben ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:7).
(5.) One of the porters of the tabernacle ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:21).
(6.) kjv@1Chronicles:9:37.
(7.) A Levite who assisted at the bringing up of the ark from the house of Obededom ( kjv@1Chronicles:15:20-24).
(8.) A Kohathite Levite ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:25).
(9.) A Merarite Levite ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:21).
(10.) The father of Iddo ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:21).
(11.) One who assisted in teaching the law to the people in the time of Jehoshaphat ( kjv@2Chronicals:17:7).
(12.) A Levite of the sons of Asaph ( kjv@2Chronicals:20:14).
(13.) One of Jehoshaphat's sons ( kjv@2Chronicals:21:2).
(14.) The father of Abijah, who was the mother of Hezekiah ( kjv@2Chronicals:29:1).
(15.) One of the sons of Asaph ( kjv@2Chronicals:29:13).
(16.) One of the "rulers of the house of God" ( kjv@2Chronicals:35:8).
(17.) A chief of the people in the time of Ezra, who consulted him about the return from captivity kjv@Ezra:8:16); probably the same as mentioned in kjv@Nehemiah:8:4,
(18.) kjv@Nehemiah:11:12.
(19.) kjv@Nehemiah:12:16.
(20.) kjv@Nehemiah:12:35 kjv@Nehemiah:12:41.
(21.) kjv@Isaiah:8:2.
Zedad @ side; sloping place, a town in the north of Palestine, near Hamath kjv@Numbers:34:8; kjv@Ezekiel:47:15). It has been identified with the ruins of Sudud, between Emesa (Hums) and Baalbec, but that is uncertain.
Zedekiah @ righteousness of Jehovah.
(1.) The last king of Judah. He was the third son of Josiah, and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, and hence he was the brother of Jehoahaz ( kjv@2Kings:23:31 kjv@2Kings:24:17-18). His original name was Mattaniah; but when Nebuchadnezzar placed him on the throne as the successor to Jehoiachin he changed his name to Zedekiah. The prophet Jeremiah was his counsellor, yet "he did evil in the sight of the Lord" ( kjv@2Kings:24:19-20; kjv@Jeremiah:52:2-3). He ascended the throne at the age of twenty-one years. The kingdom was at that time tributary to Nebuchadnezzar; but, despite the strong remonstrances of Jeremiah and others, as well as the example of Jehoiachin, he threw off the yoke of Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Hophra, king of Egypt. This brought up Nebuchadnezzar, "with all his host" (2 King 25:1), against Jerusalem. During this siege, which lasted about eighteen months, "every worst woe befell the devoted city, which drank the cup of God's fury to the dregs" ( kjv@2Kings:25:3; kjv@Lamentations:4:4-5, 10). The city was plundered and laid in ruins. Zedekiah and his followers, attempting to escape, were made captive and taken to Riblah. There, after seeing his own children put to death, his own eyes were put out, and, being loaded with chains, he was carried captive (B.C. 588) to Babylon ( kjv@2Kings:25:1-7; kjv@2Chronicals:36:12; kjv@Jeremiah:32:4-5 kjv@Jeremiah:34:2-3 kjv@Jeremiah:39:1 -7; 52:4-11; kjv@Ezekiel:12:12), where he remained a prisoner, how long is unknown, to the day of his death. After the fall of Jerusalem, Nebuzaraddan was sent to carry out its complete destruction. The city was razed to the ground. Only a small number of vinedressers and husbandmen were permitted to remain in the land kjv@Jeremiah:52:16). Gedaliah, with a Chaldean guard stationed at Mizpah, ruled over Judah ( kjv@2Kings:25:22-24; kjv@Jeremiah:40:1-2, 5, 6).
(2.) The son of Chenaanah, a false prophet in the days of Ahab (kjvKings:22:11-24; kjv@2Chronicals:18:10 kjv@2Chronicals:18:23).
(3.) The son of Hananiah, a prince of Judah in the days of Jehoiakim kjv@Jeremiah:36:12).
Zeeb @ the wolf, one of the two leaders of the great Midianite host which invaded Israel and was utterly routed by Gideon. The division of that host, which attempted to escape across the Jordan, under Oreb and Zeeb, was overtaken by the Ephraimites, who, in a great battle, completely vanquished them, their leaders being taken and slain kjv@Judges:7:25; kjv@Psalms:83:11; kjv@Isaiah:10:26).
Zelah @ slope; side, a town in Benjamin, where Saul and his son Jonathan were buried ( kjv@2Samuel:21:14). It was probably Saul's birthplace.
Zelek @ cleft, an Ammonite; one of David's valiant men ( kjv@2Samuel:23:37).
Zelophehad @ first-born, of the tribe of Manasseh, and of the family of Gilead; died in the wilderness. Having left no sons, his daughters, concerned lest their father's name should be "done away from among his family," made an appeal to Moses, who, by divine direction, appointed it as "a statute of judgment" in Israel that daughters should inherit their father's portion when no sons were left kjv@Numbers:27:1-11). But that the possession of Zelophehad might not pass away in the year of jubilee from the tribe to which he belonged, it was ordained by Moses that his daughters should not marry any one out of their father's tribe; and this afterwards became a general law Numbers:36).
Zelotes @ kjv@Luke:6:15).
See SIMON; ZEALOTS.
Zemaraim @
(1.) A town of Benjamin kjv@Joshua:18:22); now the ruin, rather two ruins, es
- Sumrah, 4 miles north of Jericho.
(2.) A mount in the highlands of Ephraim, to the north of Jerusalem ( kjv@2Chronicals:13:4-20). Here the armies of Abijah and Jeroboam engaged in a bloody battle, which issued in the total defeat of the king of Israel, who never "recovered strength again," and soon after died.
Zemarite @ the designation of one of the Phoenician tribes kjv@Genesis:10:18) who inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base of the Lebanon range. In the Amarna tablets (B.C. 1400) Zemar, or Zumur, was one of the most important of the Phoenician cities, but it afterwards almost disappears from history.
Zemira @ vine-dresser, a Benjamite; one of the sons of Becher ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:8).
Zenas @ a disciple called "the lawyer," whom Paul wished Titus to bring with him kjv@Titus:3:13). Nothing more is known of him.
Zephaniah @ Jehovah has concealed, or Jehovah of darkness.
(1.) The son of Cushi, and great-grandson of Hezekiah, and the ninth in the order of the minor prophets. He prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of Judah (B.C. 641-610), and was contemporary with Jeremiah, with whom he had much in common. The book of his prophecies consists of: (a) An introduction (1:1-6), announcing the judgment of the world, and the judgment upon Israel, because of their transgressions. (b) The description of the judgment (1:7-18). (c) An exhortation to seek God while there is still time (2:1-3). (d) The announcement of judgment on the heathen (2:4-15). (e) The hopeless misery of Jerusalem (3:1-7). (f) The promise of salvation (3:8-20).
(2.) The son of Maaseiah, the "second priest" in the reign of Zedekiah, often mentioned in Jeremiah as having been sent from the king to inquire kjv@Jeremiah:21:1) regarding the coming woes which he had denounced, and to entreat the prophet's intercession that the judgment threatened might be averted kjv@Jeremiah:29:25-26, 29; 37:3; 52:24). He, along with some other captive Jews, was put to death by the king of Babylon "at Riblah in the land of Hamath" ( kjv@2Kings:25:21).
(3.) A Kohathite ancestor of the prophet Samuel ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:36).
(4.) The father of Josiah, the priest who dwelt in Jerusalem when Darius issued the decree that the temple should be rebuilt kjv@Zechariah:6:10).
Zephath @ beacon; watch-tower, a Canaanite town; called also Hormah (q.v.), kjv@Judges:1:17. It has been identified with the pass of es
- Sufah, but with greater probability with S'beita.
Zephathah @ a valley in the west of Judah, near Mareshah; the scene of Asa's conflict with Zerah the Ethiopian ( kjv@2Chronicals:14:9-13). Identified with the Wady Safieh.
Zerah @ sunrise.
(1.) An "Ethiopian," probably Osorkon II., the successor of Shishak on the throne of Egypt. With an enormous army, the largest we read of in Scripture, he invaded the kingdom of Judah in the days of Asa ( kjv@2Chronicals:14:9-15). He reached Zephathah, and there encountered the army of Asa. This is the only instance "in all the annals of Judah of a victorious encounter in the field with a first-class heathen power in full force." The Egyptian host was utterly routed, and the Hebrews gathered "exceeding much spoil." Three hundred years elapsed before another Egyptian army, that of Necho (B.C. 609), came up against Jerusalem.
(2.) A son of Tamar kjv@Genesis:38:30); called also Zara kjv@Matthew:1:3).
(3.) A Gershonite Levite ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:21 kjv@1Chronicles:6:41).
Zered @ =Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity kjv@Numbers:21:12; kjv@Deuteronomy:2:14). It is called the "brook of the willows" kjv@Isaiah:15:7) and the "river of the wilderness" kjv@Amos:6:14). It has been identified with the Wady el
- Aksy.
Zereda @ the fortress, a city on the north of Mount Ephraim; the birthplace of Jeroboam (kjvKings:11:26). It is probably the same as Zaretan kjv@Joshua:3:16), Zererath kjv@Judges:7:22), Zartanah (kjvKings:4:12), or the following.
Zeredathah @ a place in the plain of Jordan; the same as Zarthan ( kjv@2Chronicals:4:17; kjvKings:7:46). Here Solomon erected the foundries in which Hiram made the great castings of bronze for the temple.
Zererath @ kjv@Judges:7:22), perhaps identical with Zereda or Zeredathah. Some identify it with Zahrah, a place about 3 miles west of Beth-shean.
Zeresh @ star of Venus, the wife of Haman, whom she instigated to prepare a gallows for Mordecai kjv@Esther:5:10).
Zeruah @ stricken, mother of Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes (kjvKings:11:26).
Zerubbabel @ the seed of Babylon, the son of Salathiel or Shealtiel kjv@Haggai:1:1; Zorobabel, kjv@Matthew:1:12); called also the son of Pedaiah ( kjv@1Chronicles:3:17-19), i.e., according to a frequent usage of the word "son;" the grandson or the nephew of Salathiel. He is also known by the Persian name of Sheshbazzar kjv@Ezra:1:8 kjv@Ezra:1:11). In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, he led the first band of Jews, numbering 42-360 kjv@Ezra:2:64), exclusive of a large number of servants, who returned from captivity at the close of the seventy years. In the second year after the Return, he erected an altar and laid the foundation of the temple on the ruins of that which had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (3:8-13; ch. 4-6). All through the work he occupied a prominent place, inasmuch as he was a descendant of the royal line of David.
Zeruiah @ stricken of the Lord, David's sister, and the mother of Abishai, Joab, and Asahel ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:16), who were the three leading heroes of David's army, and being his nephews, they were admitted to the closest companionship with him.
Zetham @ olive planter, a Levite ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:8).
Zethan @ a Benjamite ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:10).
Zia @ fear, a Gadite ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:13).
Ziba @ post; statue, "a servant of the house of Saul" ( kjv@2Samuel:9:2), who informed David that Mephibosheth, a son of Jonathan, was alive. He afterwards dealt treacherously toward Mephibosheth, whom he slanderously misrepresented to David.
Zibeon @ robber; or dyed.
(1.) A Hivite kjv@Genesis:36:2).
(2.) A Horite, and son of Seir kjv@Genesis:36:20).
Zibia @ gazelle, a Benjamite ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:9).
Zibiah @ the mother of King Joash ( kjv@2Kings:12:1; kjv@2Chronicals:24:1).
Zichri @ remembered; illustrious.
(1.) A Benjamite chief ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:19).
(2.) Another of the same tribe ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:23).
Ziddim @ sides, a town of Naphtali kjv@Joshua:19:35), has been identified with Kefr
- Hattin, the "village of the Hittites," about 5 miles west of Tiberias.
Zidkijah @ the Lord is righteous, one who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah kjv@Nehemiah:10:1).
Zidon @ a fishery, a town on the Mediterranean coast, about 25 miles north of Tyre. It received its name from the "first-born" of Canaan, the grandson of Noah kjv@Genesis:10:15 kjv@Genesis:10:19). It was the first home of the Phoenicians on the coast of Palestine, and from its extensive commercial relations became a "great" city kjv@Joshua:11:8 kjv@Joshua:19:28). It was the mother city of Tyre. It lay within the lot of the tribe of Asher, but was never subdued kjv@Judges:1:31). The Zidonians long oppressed Israel kjv@Judges:10:12). From the time of David its glory began to wane, and Tyre, its "virgin daughter" kjv@Isaiah:23:12), rose to its place of pre-eminence. Solomon entered into a matrimonial alliance with the Zidonians, and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the land of Israel (kjvKings:11:1-33). This city was famous for its manufactures and arts, as well as for its commerce (kjvKings:5:6; kjv@1Chronicles:22:4; kjv@Ezekiel:27:8). It is frequently referred to by the prophets kjv@Isaiah:23:2-4, 12; kjv@Jeremiah:25:22 kjv@Jeremiah:27:3 kjv@Jeremiah:47:4 ; kjv@Ezekiel:27:8 kjv@Ezekiel:28:21-22 kjv@Ezekiel:32:30 ; kjv@Joel:3:4). Our Lord visited the "coasts" of Tyre and Zidon = Sidon (q.v.), kjv@Matthew:15:21; kjv@Mark:7:24; kjv@Luke:4:26; and from this region many came forth to hear him preaching kjv@Mark:3:8; kjv@Luke:6:17). From Sidon, at which the ship put in after leaving Caesarea, Paul finally sailed for Rome kjv@Acts:27:3-4). This city is now a town of 10,000 inhabitants, with remains of walls built in the twelfth century A.D. In 1855, the sarcophagus of Eshmanezer was discovered. From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears that he was a "king of the Sidonians," probably in the third century B.C., and that his mother was a priestess of Ashtoreth, "the goddess of the Sidonians." In this inscription Baal is mentioned as the chief god of the Sidonians.
Zif @ brightness; splendour; i.e., "the flower month," mentioned only in kjvKings:6:1-37, as the "second month." It was called Iyar by the later Jews. (