Dict: smith - ZIMMAH

smith:

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)