Zedad
ze'-dad (tsedhadhah, only found with He locale; Samaritan tseradhah; Septuagint Saradak, Sadadak, Saddak): A town or district named inNu 34:8;Eze 47:15as on the ideal northern b...
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Zedechias
zed-e-ki'-as: 1 Esdras 1:46 the King James Version = the Revised Version (British and American) "Sedekias."
Zedekiah (1)
zed-e-ki'-a (tsidhqiyahu, tsidhqiyah, "Yah my righteousness"; Sedekia, Sedekias):(1) The son of Chenaanah (1Ki 22:11,24;2Ch 18:10,23). Zedekiah was apparently the leader and spo...
Zedekiah (2)
(tsidhqiyahu, "Yah my righteousness"; name changed from Mattaniah (mattanyah, "gift of Yah"; Sedekias):I. SOURCES FOR HIS REGION AND TIME1. Annalistic2. PropheticII. THE ADMINIS...
Zeeb
ze'-eb, zeb.SeeOREB.
Zela, Zelah
ze'-la (tsela` (2Sa 21:14)): A city in the territory of Benjamin (Jos 18:28; the Septuagint here omits). Here was the burying-place of the family of Saul, whither the bones of t...
Zelek
ze'-lek (tseleq, meaning unknown): An Ammonite, one of David's mighty men (2Sa 23:37;1Ch 11:39).
Zelophehad
ze-lo'-fe-had (tslophchadh, meaning unknown): Head of a Manassite family who died without male issue (Nu 26:33;27:1,7;36:2,6,10,11;Jos 17:3;1Ch 7:15). His daughters came to Mose...
Zelotes
ze-lo'-tez (Zelotes).SeeSIMON THE ZEALOT;ZEALOT.
Zelzah
zel'-za (tseltsach; hallomenous megala): A place where Samuel told Saul he would meet two men with news that the asses were found. Its position is defined as "by Rachel's sepulc...
Zemaraim
zem-a-ra'-im (cemdrayim; Codex Vaticanus Sara; Codex Alexandrinus Semrim): A city in the territory of Benjamin. It is named between Betharabah and Bethel (Jos 18:22), and is pro...
Zemarite
zem'-a-rit (ha-tsemari; ho Samaraios): A Canaanite people named inGe 10:18;1Ch 1:16. The occurrence of the name between Arvadite and Hamathite gives a hint as to locality. A pla...
Zemirah
ze-mi'-ra (zemirah, meaning uncertain; Septuagint Codex Vaticanus Amarias; Codex Alexandrinus Zamarias; the King James Version Zemira): A descendant of Benjamin (1Ch 7:8), but m...
Zenan
ze'-nan.SeeZAANAN.
Zenas
ze'-nas (Zenas (Tit 3:13); the name in full would probably be Zenodorus, literally, meaning "the gift of Zeus"):1. A Jewish Lawyer:Paul calls Zenas "the lawyer." The meaning of ...
Zend-Avesta
zend-a-ves'-ta.SeePERSIAN RELIGION;ZOROASTRIANISM.
Zephaniah
zef-a-ni'-a (tsephanyah, tsephanyahu, "Yah hath treasured"):(1) The prophet.See ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF.(2) A Levite or priest (1Ch 6:36(Hebrew 6:21)), called in some genealogies "Ur...
Zephaniah, Apocalypse Of
A (probably) Jewish apocryphal work of this name is mentioned in the Stichometry of Nicephorus and another list practically identical with this; a quotation from it is also pres...
Zephaniah, Book Of
I. THE AUTHOR1. Name2. Ancestry 3. LifeII. TIME1. Date2. Political Situation3. Moral and Religious ConditionsIII. BOOK1. Contents2. IntegrityIV. TEACHING1. The Day of Yahweh2. U...
Zephath
ze'-fath.SeeHORMAH.
Zephathah, Valley Of
zef'-a-tha (ge'tsephathah; Septuagint kata borran, reading tsephoah, instead of tsephathah): This is the place where Asa met and defeated the Ethiopians under Zerah (2Ch 14:10)....
Zephi; Zepho
ze'-fi, ze'-fo (tsephi, perhaps "gaze," or "gazing," in1Ch 1:36; tspho, the same meaning inGe 36:11,15): A duke of Edom. Septuagint has Sophar, which Skinner (Genesis, 431) says...
Zephon
ze'-fon.SeeZIPHION.
Zephonites
ze'-fon-its, ze-fo'-nits (ha-tsphoni; ho Saphoni, Codex Alexandrinus omits): A family of Gadites descended from Zephon (Nu 26:15), who is called "Ziphion" inGe 46:16.
Zer
zer, zer (tser; in Septuagint the verse (Jos 19:35) reads kai hai poleis teichereis ton Turion, which implies a Hebrew text with ha-tsurim, "Tyrians"; this must be an error): On...
Zerah
ze'-ra (zerach, meaning uncertain):(1) InGe 38:30;46:12;Nu 26:20;Jos 7:1,18,24;22:20;1Ch 2:4,6;9:6;Ne 11:24;Mt 1:3, younger twin-son of Judah and Tamar, and an ancestor of Achan...
Zerah (The Ethiopian)
(zerach ha-kushi (2Ch 14:9); Zare): A generation ago the entire story of Zerah's conquest of Asa, coming as it did from a late source (2Ch 14:9-15), was regarded as "apocryphal"...