ZAANAIM
(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 ...
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ZAANAN
[ZENAN]
ZAAVAN, OR ZAVAN
(migratory), a Horite chief, son of Ezer the son of Seir. (Genesis 36:27; 1 Chronicles 1:42)
ZABAD
(gift).Son of Nathan son of Attai, son of Ahlai Sheshan’s daughter, (1 Chronicles 2:31-37) and hence called son of Ahlai. (1 Chronicles 11:41) (B.C. 1046.) He was one of David’s...
ZABADEANS
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 surv...
ZABBAI
(pure).One of the descendants of Bebai who had married a foreign wife in the days of Ezra. (Ezra 10:28) (B.C. 458.)Father of Baruch who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the city ...
ZABBUD
(given) one of the sons of Bigvai, who returned in the second caravan with Ezra. (Ezra 8:14) (B.C. 459.)
ZABDI
(my gift).Son of Zerah the son of Judah, and ancestor of Achan. (Joshua 7:1,17,18) (B.C. before 1480.)A Benjamite, of the sons of Shimhi. (1 Chronicles 8:19) (B.C. about 1442.)D...
ZABDIEL
(gift of God).Father of Jashobeam, a chief of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 27:2) (B.C. before 1046.)A priest, son of the great men or as the margin gives it, "Haggedolim." (Nehe...
ZABUD
(given), son of Nathan, (1 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 ...
ZABULON
the Greek form of the name Zebulun. (Matthew 4:13; 15; Revelation 7:8)
ZACCAI
(pure). The sons of Zaccai to the number of 760, returned with Zerrubbabel. (Ezra 2:9; Nehemiah 7:14) (B.C. before 536.)
ZACCHAEUS
(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. (Luke 19:1...
ZACCHUR
a Simeonite, of the family of Mishma. (1 Chronicles 4:26)
ZACCUR
(mindful).Father of Shammua, the Reubenite spy. (Numbers 13:4) (B.C. 1451.)A Merarite Levite, son of Jaaziah. (1 Chronicles 24:27)Son of Asaph the singer. (1 Chronicles 25:2,10;...
ZACHARIAH
(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 rei...
ZACHARIAS
(Greek form of Zechariah).Father of John the Baptist. (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 i...
ZACHER
(memorial), one of the sons of Jehiel, the father or founder of Gibeon, by his wife Maachah. (1 Chronicles 8:31) (B.C. about 1450.)
ZADOK
(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, (1 Chronicles 24:3) and...
ZAHAM
(fatness), son of Rehoboam by Abihail the daughter of Eliab. (2 Chronicles 11:19)
ZAIR
(small), a place named in (2 Kings 8:21) only, in the account of Joram’s expedition against the Edomites. It has been conjectured that Zair is identical with Zoar.
ZALAPH
(wound) father of Hanun, who assisted in rebuilding the city wall. (Nehemiah 3:30)
ZALMON
(shady), an Ahohite one of David’s guard. (2 Samuel 23:28)
ZALMON, MOUNT
a wooded eminence in the immediate neighborhood of Shechem. (Judges 9:48) The name of Dalmanutha has been supposed to be a corruption of that of Zalmon.
ZALMONAH
(shady), a desert station of the Israelites, (Numbers 33:41) lies on the east side of Edom.
ZALMUNNA
[ZEBAH]
ZAMZUMMIM
(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 giant...