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Zebedee in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A fisherman of Galilee; father of James and John. In easy circumstances, for he owned a boat and hired servants (Matthew 4:21; Mark 1:20). Salome his wife ministered to Jesus (Matthew 27:55-56; Mark 15:40-41). His disinterestedness and favorable disposition towards Christ appear in his allowing without objection his sons to leave him at Chris...

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Zebulun in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zeb'-u-lun (zebhulun, also written zebuwlun and zebuluwn; the first form occurs only in Jdg 1:30; the other two are frequent, and are used interchangeably; Zaboulon): In Gen 30:20 Leah exclaims, "God hath endowed me with a good dowry," which suggests a derivation of Zebulun from zabhadh, "to bestow," the (d) being replaced by (l). Again she sa...

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Zebaim in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(the gazelles), mentioned in the catalogue of the families of "Solomon's slaves" who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:57; Ne 7:59...

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Zebedee in Hitchcock's Bible Names

abundant; portion...

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Zebaim in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Ezra 2:57; Neh. 7:59). "Pochereth of Zebaim" should be read as in the Revised Version, "Pochereth-hazzebaim" ("snaring the antelopes"), probably the name of some hunter....

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Zebaim in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The sons of Pochereth were of Zebaim which some identify with ZEBOIM; others translated Pochereth hatsebaim, "the snarer (hunter) of roes" (Ezra 2:57; Nehemiah 7:59)....

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Zebulun in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Jacob and Leah Ge 30:20; 35:23; 46:14; 49:13; Ex 1:3; 1Ch 2:1 Descendants of Ge 46:14; Nu 26:26,27 Also called ZABULUN -2. Tribe of Place of, in marching and camping Nu 2:3,7; 10:14,16 Territory awarded to Ge 49:13; Jos 19:10-16; Mt 4:13 Aboriginal inhabitants of the territory of, not expelled Jud 1:30 Levitical cities of Jo...

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Zebul in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ze'-bul (zebhul, perhaps "exalted"; Zeboul): In Jdg 9:26 ff. He is called in 9:30 sar ha-`ir, "the ruler of the city," a phrase translated "the governor of the city" in 1 Ki 22:26 = 2 Ch 18:25; 2 Ki 23:8; 2 Ch 34:8; he was "commandant of the town" of Shechem. In Jdg 9:28 he is referred to as the paqidh, "officer," or, more correctly, "deputy" ...

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Zebulun in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a habitation), the tenth of the sons of Jacob, according to the order in which their births are enumerated, the sixth and last of Leah. Ge 30:20; 35:23; 46:14; 1Ch 2:1 His birth is mentioned in Ge 30:19,20 Of the individual Zebulun nothing is recorded. The list of Gene 46 ascribes to him three sons, founders of the chief families of the tribe...

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Zebah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

and Zalmun'na (deprived of protection), the two "kings" of Midian who commanded the great invasion of Israel, and who finally fell by the hand of Gideon himself. Jud 8:5-21; Ps 83:11 (B.C. 1250.) While Oreb and Zeeb, two of the inferior leaders of the incursion, had been slain, with a vast number of their people, by the Ephraimites, at the cen...

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