This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''Z'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
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Zaanaim a., ''removings''
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Zaanannim Zaanaim, Zaanannim or Bezaanaim is a place name applied to one or two locations in the Hebrew Bible. According to Serge Frolov (2013), its location "cannot be determined with any degree of certainty."
Zaanaim means "wanderings", "the unloading of t ...
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Zaavan, ''terror,''
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Zabad, ''gift''
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Zabbai Zabbai is a name of uncertain meaning.
It appears in the Bible in Ezra , and in Nehemiah , where Zabbai is given as the father of Baruch, who "earnestly repaired" part of the walls of Jerusalem
The Walls of Jerusalem ( he, חומות ירו ...
, ''wanderer, pure'' ''pure''
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Zabbud, ''given,'' ''gift''
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Zabdi, ''Gift of Jehovah,'' ''my gift''
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Zabdiel, ''gift of God''
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Zaccai, ''pure''
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Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus (sometimes spelled Zaccheus; grc, Ζακχαῖος, '; he, זכי, "pure, innocent") was a chief tax-collector at Jericho in the Bible. He is known primarily for his faith in climbing a sycamore tree to see Jesus, and also his gen ...
, ''pure; clean; just''
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Zaccur, ''mindful''
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Zachariah, ''remembered by Jehovah,'' ''remembered by the Lord''
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Zacharias, ''the Lord has remembered,'' ''Greek form of Zechariah,''
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Zacher, ''memento; recollection; commemoration''
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Zadok
Zadok (or Zadok HaKohen, also spelled Ṣadok, Ṣadoc, Zadoq, Tzadok, or Tsadoq; he, צָדוֹק הַכֹּהֵן, meaning "Righteous, Justified") was a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant from Eleazar the son of Aaron (). H ...
, ''just'' ''righteous''
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Zaham, ''fatness''
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Zair, ''little,'' ''small''
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Zalaph, ''wound''
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Zalmon, ''shady,''
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Zalmonah, ''shady,''
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Zalmunna
''Zalmunna'' is a genus of plant bugs in the tribe Mirini
Mirini is a tribe of plant bugs belonging to the subfamily Mirinae.
Genera
'' Acanthocranella'' - '' Acanthopeplus'' - '' Actinonotus'' - '' Adelphocoridea'' - '' Adelphocoris'' ...
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Zamzummims
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Zanoah
Zanoah ( he, זָנוֹחַ) is a moshav in central Israel. Located adjacent to Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Modern history
The village was established in 1950 by im ...
, ''marsh''
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Zaphnath-paaneah
Zaphnath-Paaneah ( hbo, צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ , grc, label=LXX, Ψονθομφανήχ ) is the name given by Pharaoh to Joseph in the Genesis narrative ().
The name may be of Egyptian origins, but there is no straightforward etymo ...
, ''revealer of a secret'', ''the man to whom secrets are revealed''
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Zarah
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Zareathites
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Zared
Wadi al-Hasa ( ar, وادي الحسا), known from the Hebrew Bible as the valley and brook of Zered ( he, זרד), is a wadi in western Jordan. It is located between the Karak and Tafilah governorates.
Geography
The wadi is very big and lon ...
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Zarephath Zarephath may refer to the following :
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* Alternative name for Ancient Phoenician city Sarepta, now Sarafand, Lebanon
* Zarephath, New Jersey in the United States
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* Raising of the son of the widow of Zarephath
* Zarephath Wines
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Zaretan Zaretan or Zarethan (Hebrew: צָרְתָן), also known as Zeredathah, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as near the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan (). In the books of Joshua (, KJV "Zaretan") and 1 Kings ( KJV "Zartanah", "Z ...
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Zareth-shahar
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Zarhites
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Zartanah
This is an incomplete list of places, lands, and countries mentioned in the Bible. Some places may be listed twice, under two different names. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included: see also the list of minor biblical places ...
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Zarthan
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Zatthu
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Zattu
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Zavan
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Zaza
Zaza may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Zazas, a group of people in eastern Anatolia (southeastern Turkey)
* Zaza–Gorani languages, Indo-Iranian languages
** Zaza language, spoken by the Zazas
People Given name
* Zaza Sor. Aree (born 1993), Thai k ...
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Zebadiah
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Zebah
Zebah ( ''Zeḇaḥ'', "sacrifice", Zebee in the Brenton Septuagint Translation and the Douai-Rheims Bible) and Zalmunna (צַלְמֻנָּע ''Ṣalmunnā‘'', "shade denied", Salmana in the Brenton Septuagint Translation and the Douai-Rheims B ...
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Zebaim
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Zebedee
Zebedee ( ; grc, Ζεβεδαῖος, Zebedaîos; he, , Zəḇaḏyâ), according to all four Canonical Gospels, was the father of James and John, two disciples of Jesus. The gospels also suggest that he was the husband of Salome: whereas Ma ...
, ''my gift''
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Zebina
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Zeboiim
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Zeboim
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Zebudah
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Zebul
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Zebulonite
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Zebulun
Zebulun (; also ''Zebulon'', ''Zabulon'', or ''Zaboules'') was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers,Genesis 46:14 the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's tenth son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Zebulun. Some ...
, ''dwelling; habitation''
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Zebulunites
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Zechariah
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Zedad
Sadad ( ar, صدد / ALA-LC: ''Ṣadad''; syr, ܣܕܕ) is a town in Syria, 60 kilometers (37 mi) south of Homs, and 101 kilometers (63 mi) northeast of Damascus. It had over 3,500 inhabitants in the 2004 census, the majority of whom b ...
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Zedekiah
Zedekiah (), was the 20th and last king of Judah before the destruction of the kingdom by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. His birth name was Mattaniah/Mattanyahu ( he, מַתַּנְיָהוּ, ''Mattanyāhū'', "Gift of God"; el, Μαθθ ...
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Zeeb
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Zelah
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Zelek
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Zelophehad
The Daughters of Zelophehad ( he, בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד ''Bənōṯ Ṣəlāfəḥāḏ'') were five sisters – Mahlah (מַחְלָה ''Maḥlā''), Noa (נֹעָה ''Nōʿā''), Hoglah (חָגְלָה ''Ḥoglā''), Milcah (מִל ...
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Zelotes
''Zelotes'' is a genus
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Zelzah
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Zemaraim
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Zemarite
This list contains tribes or other groups of people named in the Bible of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections.
A Accaba, descendants of
For the descendants of "Accaba" (1 Esd ...
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Zemira
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Zenan
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Zenas
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Zephaniah
Zephaniah (, ) is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Tanakh, the most prominent one being the prophet who prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of Judah (640–609 BCE) and is attributed a book bearing his name among the ...
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Zephath
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Zephathah
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Zephi, variant spelling of Zepho. A son of Eliphaz, grandson of Esau and one of the “dukes” of Edom.
[Gen. 36:11, 15; 1 Chron. 1:36]
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Zepho, variant spelling of Zephi. A son of Eliphaz, grandson of Esau and one of the “dukes” of Edom.
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Zephon
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Zephonites
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Zer
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Zerah
Zerah or Zérach ( / "sunrise" Standard Hebrew ''Zéraḥ'' / ''Záraḥ'', Tiberian Hebrew ''Zéraḥ'' / ''Zāraḥ'') refers to several different people in the Hebrew Bible.For the etymology see
An Edomite
Zerah was the name of an Edomite ch ...
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Zerahiah
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Zered
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Zereda
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Zeredathah Zaretan or Zarethan (Hebrew: צָרְתָן), also known as Zeredathah, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as near the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan River, Jordan (). In the books of Joshua (, KJV "Zaretan") and 1 Kings ( KJV " ...
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Zererath
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Zeresh
Zeresh (Hebrew: זֶרֶשׁ) was the wife of Haman the Agagite who is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Esther.
Zeresh advised her husband to prepare a high gallows (50 cubits) and to hang Mordecai on it ( Esther 5:14). However, she l ...
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Zereth
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Zeri
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Zeror
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Zeruah
Zeruah (Hebrew: צְרוּעָה ''Ṣərūʿā'', "leper") was an ancestor of Jeroboam, the first king of the Kingdom of Israel. She is mentioned only in a single verse of the Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;[Zerubbabel
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Zeruiah Zeruiah ( sometimes transliterated Tzruya or Zeruya) was a sister of King David. According to both and the Babylonian Talmud, Zeruiah was a daughter of Jesse and sister of Abigail, to whom reference is made in 1 Chronicles () and Samuel 2 (). Zer ...
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Zetham
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Zethan
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Zethar
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Zia
Zia or ZIA (also spelled Ziya, Ḍiya , Dia or Diya) may refer to:
People
* Zia (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** A romanization of the Wu ( Shanghainese) pronunciation of the Chinese surname Xie (謝)
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Ziba
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Zibeon
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Zibia
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Zibiah Zibiah, or Sibia, ( he, צִבְיָה; ''Ṣīḇəyā'', "gazelle") was the consort of King Ahaziah of Judah, and the mother of King Jehoash of Judah.2 Kings 12:1 She was from Beersheba. She is mentioned only in 2 Kings 12:1 and 2 Chronicles 24:1, ...
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Zichri
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Ziddim
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Zidkijah
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Zidon
Sidon ( ; he, צִידוֹן, ''Ṣīḏōn'') known locally as Sayda or Saida ( ar, صيدا ''Ṣaydā''), is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital, on the Mediterranean coast. ...
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Zidonians
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Zif
ZIF, ZiF or Zif may refer to:
* Zero insertion force
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Ziha
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Ziklag Ziklag ( he, צִקְלַג) is the biblical name of a town that was located in the Negev region in the south-west of what was the Kingdom of Judah. It was a provincial town within the Philistine kingdom of Gath when Achish was king. Its exact loca ...
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Zillah
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Zilpah In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah ( he, ''Zīlpā'', meaning uncertain) was Leah's handmaid, presumed slave,In Context whom Leah gave to Jacob like a wife to bear him children (). Zilpah gave birth to two sons, whom Leah claimed as her own and name ...
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Zilthai
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Zimmah
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Zimran
Zimran (; , ar, زمران), also known as Zambran, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first son of the marriage of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah. Zimran had five other brothers, J ...
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Zimri
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Zin
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Zina
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Zion
Zion ( he, צִיּוֹן ''Ṣīyyōn'', LXX , also variously transliterated ''Sion'', ''Tzion'', ''Tsion'', ''Tsiyyon'') is a placename in the Hebrew Bible used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole (see Names ...
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Zior
Zion ( he, צִיּוֹן ''Ṣīyyōn'', LXX , also variously transliterated ''Sion'', ''Tzion'', ''Tsion'', ''Tsiyyon'') is a placename in the Hebrew Bible used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole (see Name ...
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Ziph
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Ziphah
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Ziphims
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Ziphion
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Ziphites
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Ziphron
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Zippor
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Zipporah
Zipporah, or Tzipora (; he, צִפּוֹרָה, ''Ṣīppōrā'', "bird"),, ''Sepphōra''; ar, صفورة, ''Ṣaffūrah'' is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Reuel/Jethro, the priest and prince of Midi ...
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Zithri
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Ziz
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Ziza
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Zizah
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Zoan
Zoan or Tso'an (Hebrew: צֹועַן ''Ṣōʕan'') was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a city of Egypt in the eastern Nile delta. Book of Numbers 13:22 says that it was built seven years after Hebron was built. Psalm 78:12,43 identifies the "fiel ...
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Zoar
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Zoba
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At the time of independ ...
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Zobah
Zobah or Aram-Zobah ( ʾ''Ărām-Ṣōḇāʾ'') was an early Aramean state mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, which extended north-east of biblical King David's realm.
A. F. Kirkpatrick, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1896), pla ...
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Zobebah
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Zohar
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Zoheleth
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). There Adonijah (q.v.) feasted all the royal princes e ...
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Zoheth
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Zophah
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Zophai
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Zophar
In the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament ''Book of Job'' (c. 6th century BCE?), Zophar ( he, ''Ṣōp̄ar'', "chirping; rising early"; also ''Tzofar'') the Naamathite is one of the three friends of Job who visit to comfort him during his illness. Hi ...
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Zophim
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Zorah
Zorah ( he, צרעה) or Tzorah (), was a biblical town in the Judaean Foothills. It is identified with the depopulated village of Sar'a. It has been identified with the former village of Sar'a, now often referred to as Tel Tzora.
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Zorathites
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Zoreah
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Zorites
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Zorobabel
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Zuar
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Zuph
Zuph meaning ''honeycomb'' in Hebrew
* According to the Books of Chronicles, a Kohathite Levite, a fact not mentioned in the books of Samuel. He was the ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1:1); called also Zophai in the parallel passage, ...
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Zur
Zur occurs five times in the King James Bible as the name of various people and a state.
* The first mention is in . This is the pericope where Numbers 25:1 tells us that ''Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the ...
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Zuriel
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Zurishaddai
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Zuzim
References
*Comay, Joan, ''Who's Who in the Old Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1971,
*Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the men of the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing House (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1958
*Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the women of the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing 1988,
*Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing 1988,
*Tischler, Nancy M., ''All things in the Bible: an encyclopedia of the biblical world '', Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006 {{ISBN, 0-313-33082-4
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