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 ...
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Easton's Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, M. G. Easton, 1897.
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Zaanan
Place of flocks, mentioned only in Micah 1:11. It may be identified with Zenan, in the plain country of Judah (Josh. 15:37).
Zaanannim
=Zaanaim, (Josh. 19:33).
Zaavan
Terror, one of the “dukes of Edom” (Gen. 36:27); called also Zavan (1 Chr. 1:42).
Zabad
Gift. (1.) One of David’s valiant men (1 Chr. 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...
Zabbai
Wanderer; pure. (1.) Ezra 10:28.(2.) The father of Baruch, who “earnestly repaired” part of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:20; marg., “Zaccai”).
Zabbud
Gift, Ezra 8:14.
Zabdi
Gift of Jehovah. (1.) An ancestor of Achan (Josh. 7:1, 17, 18). He is probably the “Zimri” of 1 Chr. 2:6.(2.) A Benjamite (1 Chr. 8:19).(3.) Called “the Shiphmite,” one of David...
Zabdiel
Gift of God. (1.) The father of Jashobeam, who was one of David’s officers (1 Chr. 27:2).(2.) An overseer of the priests after the Captivity (Neh. 11:14).
Zabud
Gift, the son of Nathan, who was “king’s friend” in the court of Solomon (1 Kings 4:5).
Zabulon
(Matt. 4:13, 15; Rev. 7:8). See ZEBULUN.
Zaccai
Pure, one whose “sons” returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:9; Neh. 7:14). (See ZABBAI.)
Zacchaeus
Pure, a superintendant of customs; a chief tax-gather (publicanus) at Jericho (Luke 19:1-10). “The collection of customs at Jericho, which at this time produced and exported a c...
Zaccur
Mindful. (1.) Father of Shammua, who was one of the spies sent out by Moses (Num. 13:4).(2.) A Merarite Levite (1 Chr. 24:27).(3.) A son of Asaph, and chief of one of the course...
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 thron...
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 (1 Chr. 23:1-19). Only four of these cours...
Zacher
Memorial, a son of Jehiel (1 Chr. 8:31; 9:35); called Zechariah (9:37).
Zadok
Righteous. (1.) A son of Ahitub, of the line of Eleazer (2 Sam. 8:17; 1 Chr. 24:3), high priest in the time of David (2 Sam. 20:25) and Solomon (1 Kings 4:4). He is first mentio...
Zair
Little, a place probably east of the Dead Sea, where Joram discomfited the host of Edom who had revolted from him (2 Kings 8:21).
Zalmon
Shady. (1.) One of David’s warriors, called the Ahohite (2 Sam. 23:28); called also Ilai (1 Chr. 11:29).(2.) A wood near Shechem, from which Abimelech and his party brought boug...
Zalmonah
Shady, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num. 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 (Judg. 8:5-21). (See ZEBAH.)
Zamzummims
A race of giants; “a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims” (Deut. 2:20, 21). They were overcome by the Ammonites, “who called them Zamzummims.” They belonged to the ...
Zanoah
Marsh. (1.) A town in the low country or shephelah of Judah, near Zorah (Josh. 15:34). It was re-occupied after the return from the Captivity (Neh. 11:30). Zanu’ah in Wady Ismai...
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 (Gen. 41:45). This is a pure Egyptian word, and has been va...
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 a...
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 ...