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Zealots,

ZEAL'OTS, the name of a party among the Jews, half religious and half political, founded by Judas the Galilean or the Gaulanite, Acts 5:37, and, after the death of him and his sons, led by Eleazar, o…

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

ZEAL'OTS, the name of a party among the Jews, half religious and half political, founded by Judas the Galilean or the Gaulanite, Acts 5:37, and, after the death of him and his sons, led by Eleazar, one of his descendants.