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 Merom, near Kedesh, in ...
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 conspired again ...
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's officers, ...
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).
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 considerable quantity ...
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 courses of singers as arra ...
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 throne, which he occupied o ...
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 courses or “families“ o ...
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 mentioned as coming to take ...
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 boughs and “put them to ...
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).
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 Rephaim, and i ...
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 Ismail, 10 miles west of Je ...
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 variously explained. Som ...
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 and Sidon. Here Eli ...
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 beside Zaretan,“ p ...
Zareth-shahar:
the splendour of the dawn, a city “in the mount of the valley“ (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, ...
Zarthan:
a place near Succoth, in the plain of the Jordan, “in the clay ground,“ near which Hiram cast the brazen utensils for the temple (1 Kings 7:46); probably the same as Zartan. It is also called Zer ...
Zatthu:
a sprout, Neh. 10:14.
Zattu:
id., one whose descendants returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:8; Neh. 7:13); probably the same as Zatthu.
Zaza:
plenty, a descendant of Judah (1 Chr. 2:33).
Zeal:
an earnest temper; may be enlightened (Num. 25:11-13; 2 Cor. 7:11; 9:2), or ignorant and misdirected (Rom. 10:2; Phil. 3:6). As a Christian grace, it must be grounded on right principles and directed ...
Zealots:
a sect of Jews which originated with Judas the Gaulonite (Acts 5:37). They refused to pay tribute to the Romans, on the ground that this was a violation of the principle that God was the only king of ...
Zebadiah:
gift of Jehovah. (1.) A son of Asahel, Joab's brother (1 Chr. 27:7). (2.) A Levite who took part as one of the teachers in the system of national education instituted by Jehoshaphat (2 Chr. 17:7, 8). ...
Zebah:
man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Judg. 8). Zebah and Za ...
Zebaim:
(Ezra 2:57; Neh. 7:59). “Pochereth of Zebaim“ should be read as in the Revised Version, “Pochereth-hazzebaim“ (“snaring the antelopes“), probably the name of some hunter.
Zebedee:
a Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q.v.), and the father of James and John, two of our Lord's disciples (Matt. 4:21; 27:56; Mark 15:40). He seems to have been a man of some position in Cape ...
Zeboim:
gazelles or roes. (1.) One of the “five cities of the plain“ of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah (Gen. 10:19; 14:2; Deut. 29:23; Hos. 11:8). It had a king of its own (Shemeber), and was theref ...
Zebudah:
given, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:36).