Smith's Bible Dictionary

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ZILTHAI

(shady).A Benjamite, of the sons of Shimhi. (1 Chronicles 8:20)One of the captains of thousands of Manasseh who deserted to David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:20) (B.C. 1054.)

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ZIMMAH

(purpose).A Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath. (1 Chronicles 6:20) (B.C. after 1706.)Another Gershonite, son of Shimei, (1 Chronicles 6:42) possibly the same as the preceding.Fat...

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ZIMRAN

(celebrated), the eldest son of Keturah. (Genesis 25:2; 1 Chronicles 1:32) His descendants are not mentioned, nor is any hint given that he was the founder of a tribe. (B.C. 1855.)

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ZIMRI

The son of Salu, a Simeonite chieftain, slain by Phinehas with the Midianitish princess Cozbi. (Numbers 25:14). (B.C. 1450.)Fifth sovereign of the separate kingdom of Israel, of...

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ZIN

(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 coun...

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ZINA

(abundance); Zizah, the second son of Shimei the Gershonite. (1 Chronicles 23:10) comp. 1Chr 23:11

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ZION

[JERUSALEM]

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ZIOR

(smallness), a town in the mountain district of Judah. (Joshua 15:54) It belongs to the same group with Hebron.

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ZIPH

(battlement), the name of two towns in Judah.In the south, named between Ithnan and Telem. (Joshua 15:24) It does not appear again in the history, nor has any trace of has been ...

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ZIPHAH

(feminine of Ziph), another son of Jehaleleel. (1 Chronicles 4:16)

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ZIPHIM, THE

the inhabitants of ZIPH, 2. In this form the name is found in the Authorized Version only in the title of (Psalms 54:1) In the narrative it occurs in the more usual form of ZIPH...

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ZIPHION

son of Gad (Genesis 46:18) elsewhere called Zephon.

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ZIPHRAN

(fragrance), appoint in the north boundary of the promised land as specified by Moses. (Numbers 34:9)

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ZIPPOR

(sparrow), father of Balak king of Moab. (Numbers 22:2,4,10,16; 23:18; Joshua 24:9; Judges 11:25) Whether he was the "former king of Moab" alluded to in (Numbers 21:26) we are n...

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ZIPPORAH, OR ZIPPORAH

daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the priest of Midian, wife of Moses and mother of his two sons Gershom and Eliezer. (Exodus 2:21; 4:25; 18:2) comp. Exod 18:6 (B.C. 1530.) The only ...

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ZITHRI

(protection of Jehovah), properly Sithri; one of the sons of Uzziel the son of Kohath. (Exodus 6:22) In (Exodus 6:21) Zithri should be Zichri, as in Authorized Version of 1611.

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ZIZ

(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 ...

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ZIZA

(shining).Son of Shiphi, a chief of the Simeonites in the reign of Hezekiah. (1 Chronicles 4:37) (B.C. about 725.)Son of Rehoboam by Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom. (2 Chr...

127

ZIZAH

a Gershonite Levite, second son of Shimei, (1 Chronicles 23:11) called ZINA in ver. (1 Chronicles 23:10)

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ZOAN

(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 d...

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ZOAR

(smallness), one of the most ancient cities of the land of Canaan. Its original name was BELA. (Genesis 14:2,8) It was in intimate connection with the cities of the "plain of Jo...

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ZOBA, OR ZOBAH

(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, an...

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ZOBEBAH

(the slow), son of Coz, of the tribe of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:8)

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ZOHAR

(light).Father of Ephron the Hittite. (Genesis 23:8; 25:9) (B.C. before 1860.)One of the sons of Simeon (Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15) called ZARAH, OR ZERAH, ZERAH in (1 Chronicl...

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ZOHELETH

(serpent), The stone, This was "by En-rogel," (1 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 li...

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ZOHETH

son of Ishi of the tribe of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:20)

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ZOPHAH

(a cruse) son of Helem or Hotham the son of Heber, an Asherite. (1 Chronicles 7:35,36)