Bible Names N-Z

Zoan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Old Egypt. Sant= "stronghold," the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Israel (Num. 13:22). This great and important city was the capital of the Hyksos, or Shepherd kings, who ruled Egypt for more than 500 years. It was the frontier town of Goshen. He...

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Zizah in Naves Topical Bible

-A Gershonite 1Ch 23:11 -Called ZINA in 1Ch 23:10...

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Ziza in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zi'-za (ziza', probably a childish reduplicated abbreviation or a term of endearment (Curtis, Chron., 369, quoting Noldeke in EB, III 3294)): (1) A Simeonite chief (1 Ch 4:37). (2) A son of King Rehoboam, his mother being a daughter or grand-daughter of Absalom (2 Ch 11:20). (3) A probable reading for ZIZAH (which see)....

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Zizah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

a Gershonite Levite, second son of Shimei, 1Ch 23:11 called ZINA in ver. 1Ch 23:10...

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Zohar in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zo'-har (tsochar, meaning uncertain): (1) Father of Ephron the Hittite (Gen 23:8; 25:9). (2) "Son" of Simeon (Gen 46:10; Ex 6:15) = "Zerah" of Nu 26:13; 1 Ch 4:24. See ZERAH, 4. (3) In 1 Ch 4:7, where the Qere is "and tsochar" for the Kethibh is yitschar, the Revised Version (British and American) "Izhar," the King James Version wrongly "Jezoar....

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Zippor in Hitchcock's Bible Names

bird; sparrow; crown; desert...

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Zizah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zi'-za (zizah; see ZIZA): A Gershonite Levite (1 Ch 23:11); in verse 10 the name is "Zina" (zina'), while the Septuagint and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) have "Ziza" (Ziza) in both verses, and one Hebrew manuscript has ziza' in 1 Ch 23:10. We should then probably read ziza' in both verses, i.e. "Ziza."...

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Zizah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a Gershonite Levite (1 Chr. 23:11)....

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