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Zelophehad in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ze-lo'-fe-had (tslophchadh, meaning unknown): Head of a Manassite family who died without male issue (Nu 26:33; 27:1,7; 36:2,6,10,11; Josh 17:3; 1 Ch 7:15). His daughters came to Moses and Eleazar and successfully pleaded for a possession for themselves (Nu 27:1 ff). This became the occasion for a law providing that in the case of a man dying ...

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Zemira in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a song), one of the sons of Becher the son of Benjamin. 1Ch 7:8 (B.C. after 1706.)...

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Zenas in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Contracted for Zenodorus. Titus 3:13. A "lawyer," i.e. Jewish scribe, learned in the Hebrew law, who after conversion still retained the title. Paul commends him to Titus, that he should bring Zenas and Apollos on their journey diligently, so that nothing might be wanting to them of necessaries....

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Zelophehad in Naves Topical Bible

-(Grandson of Gilead) -His daughters petition for his inheritance Nu 27:1-11; 36; Jos 17:3-6; 1Ch 7:15...

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Zemira in Easton's Bible Dictionary

vine-dresser, a Benjamite; one of the sons of Becher (1 Chr. 7:8)....

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Zenas in Hitchcock's Bible Names

living...

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Zelophehad in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(first-born), son of Zepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh. Jos 17:3 (B.C. before 1450.) He was apparently the second son of Hepher. 1Ch 7:15 Zelophehad came out of Egypt with Moses, but died in the wilderness, as did the whole of that generation. Nu 14:35; 27:3 On his death without male heirs, his five daughters, just after th...

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Zemira in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Becher, son of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:8)....

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Zephaniah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zef-a-ni'-a (tsephanyah, tsephanyahu, "Yah hath treasured"): (1) The prophet. See ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF. (2) A Levite or priest (1 Ch 6:36 (Hebrew 6:21)), called in some genealogies "Uriel" (1 Ch 6:24; 15:5,11). (3) Judean father or fathers of various contemporaries of Zechariah, the prophet (Zec 6:10,14). (4) A priest, the second in rank in the day...

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Zelophehad in Easton's Bible Dictionary

first-born, of the tribe of Manasseh, and of the family of Gilead; died in the wilderness. Having left no sons, his daughters, concerned lest their father's name should be "done away from among his family," made an appeal to Moses, who, by divine direction, appointed it as "a statute of judgment" in Israel that daughters should inherit the...

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