Zoba
ZO'BA, and ZO'BAH (station), a portion of Syria. It was one of the kingdoms of Aram, known as Aramzobah. See Aram. It embraced the country between the north-east of Palestine and the Euphrates. It wa…
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, and extended thence nort…
Zobah
=Aram-Zobah, (Ps. 60, title), a Syrian province or kingdom to the south of Coele-Syria, and extending from the eastern slopes of Lebanon north and east toward the Euphrates. Saul and David had war wi…
Zobebah
(the slow), son of Coz, of the tribe of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:8)
Zohar
Brightness. (1.) The father of Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23:8). (2.) One of the sons of Simeon (Gen. 46:10; Ex. 6:15).
Zoheleth
The serpent-stone, a rocky plateau near the centre of the village of Siloam, and near the fountain of En-rogel, to which the women of the village resort for water (1 Kings 1:5-9). Here Adonijah (q.v.…
Zoheth
Snatching (?), one of the sons of Ishi (1 Chr. 4:20).
Zophah
Spreading out, a son of Helem (1 Chr. 7:35), a chief of Asher.
Zophai
(descended from Zuph), a Kohathite Levite, son of Elkanah and ancestor of Samuel. (2 Chronicles 6:26) (11). In ver. 35 he is called Zuph.
Zophar,
ZOPHAR, one of Job's three friends, Job 2:11, is called the Naamatliite, probably because he belonged to Naamah, Josh 15:41, a town assigned to Judah.
Zophim
(watchers), The field of, a spot on or near the top of Pisgah, from which Balaam had his second view of the encampment of Israel. (Numbers 23:14) The position of the field of Zophim is not defined. P…
Zophim, Field Of
Field of watchers, a place in Moab on the range of Pisgah (Num. 23:14). To this place Balak brought Balaam, that he might from thence curse the children of Israel. Balaam could only speak the word of…
Zorah,
ZO'RAH, and ZORE'AH (hornets' town), and ZA'REAH, Neh 11:29, a town in the low-country of Judah; afterward assigned to Dan, Josh 15:33; Josh 19:41; the birthplace and burial place of Samson. Jud 13:2…
Zorathites
ZO'RATHITES, a family of the tribe of Judah, probably inhabitants of Zorah. 1 Chr 4:2.
Zorathites, The
i.e. the people of Zorah, mentioned in (1 Chronicles 4:2) as descended from Shobal.
Zoreah.
ZO'REAH. Josh 15:33. See Zorah.
Zorites
ZO'RITES, probably inhabitants of Zorah. 1 Chr 2:54.
Zorites, The
are named in the genealogies of Judah, (1 Chronicles 2:54) apparently among the descendants of Salma and near connections of Joab.
Zorobabel.
ZOROB'ABEL. See Zerubbabel.
Zuar
(littleness), father of Nethaneel the chief of the tribe of Issachar at the time of the exodus. (Numbers 1:8; 2:5; 7:18,23; 10:15) (B.C. 2491.)
Zuph
Honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26).
Zuph, Land Of
(1 Sam. 9:5, 6), a district in which lay Samuel’s city, Ramah. It was probably so named after Elkanah’s son, Zuph (1 Chr. 6:26, marg.).
Zuph, The Land Of
ZUPH, THE LAND OF, the farthest point of the journey of Saul, and where he encountered Samuel at a certain city, the name of which is not given. 1 Sam 9:5-6. The whole of this journey has been a curi…
Zur
Rock. (1.) One of the five Midianite kings whom the Israelites defeated and put to death (Num. 31:8). (2.) A Benjamite (1 Chr. 8:30).
Zuriel
Rock of God, chief of the family of the Merarites (Num. 3:35) at the time of the Exodus.
Zurishaddai
Rock of the Almighty, the father of Shelumiel, who was chief of the tribe of Simeon when Israel was encamped at Sinai (Num. 1:6; 2:12).
Zuzim, The
An ancient people who, lying in the path of Chedorlaomer and his allies, were attacked and overthrown by them. (Genesis 14:5) The Zuzim perhaps inhabited the country of the Ammonites, who were identi…
Zuzims,
ZU'ZIMS, the Ammonite name. Gen 14:5, of doubtful derivation, for a tribe of gigantic stature and strength which inhabited the country east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, probably between the Arnon …