Bible Names N-Z

Zur in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a rock). 1. Father of Cozbi, Nu 25:15 and one of the five princes of Midian who were slain by the Israelites when Balaam fell. Nu 31:8 (B.C. 1451.) 2. Son of Jehiel, the founder of Gideon. 1Ch 8:30; 9:36, (B.C. after 1445.)...

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Zuriel in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Abihail; chief of the Merarite Levites at the Exodus. (Numbers 3:35)....

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Zuph in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A Kohathite 1Sa 1:1; 1Ch 6:35 -2. A district northwest of Jerusalem 1Sa 9:5...

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Zur in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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)....

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Zuriel in Hitchcock's Bible Names

rock or strength of God...

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Zuph in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(honeycomb), The land of, a district at which Saul and his servant arrived after passing through the possessions of Shalisha, of Shalim and of the Benjamites. 1Sa 9:5 only. It evidently contained the city in which they encountered Samuel, ver. 6, and that again was certainly not far from the "tomb of Rachel." It may perhaps be identified with ...

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Zur in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. One of Midian's five princes, slain with Balaam by Israel (Numbers 31:8). Father of Cozbi. (See COZBI .) Subject to Sihon (Joshua 13:21). 2. Son of Jehiel (1 Chronicles 8:30;...

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Zurishaddai in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zu-ri-shad'-a-i, zu-ri-shad'-i (tsurishadday, "my rock is Shadday"): Father of Shelumiel the head of the tribe of Simeon (Nu 1:6; 2:12; 7:36,41; 10:19). See GOD, NAMES OF, II, 8; ZURIEL....

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Zuph in Easton's Bible Dictionary

honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26)....

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Zur in Hitchcock's Bible Names

stone; rock; that besieges...

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