(3.) The son of Ishmael, “the ruler of the house of Judah in all the king’s
matters” (2 Chronicles 19:8-11).
(4.) A son of Beriah (1 Chronicles 8:15).
(5.) A Korhite porter of the Lord’s house (1 Chronicles 26:2). Three or
four others of this name are also mentioned.
- ZEBAH man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast
host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom
Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Judges 8). Zebah and Zalmunna
had succeeded in escaping across the Jordan with a remnant of the
Midianite host, but were overtaken at Karkor, probably in the Hauran, and
routed by Gideon. The kings were taken alive and brought back across the
Jordan; and confessing that they had personally taken part in the slaughter
of Gideon’s brothers, they were put to death (comp. 1 Samuel 12:11;
Isaiah 10:26; Psalm 83:11). - ZEBAIM (Ezra 2:57; Nehemiah 7:59). “Pochereth of Zebaim” should be
read as in the Revised Version, “Pochereth-hazzebaim” (“snaring the
antelopes”), probably the name of some hunter. - ZEBEDEE a Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q.v.), and the
father of James and John, two of our Lord’s disciples (Matthew 4:21;
27:56; Mark 15:40). He seems to have been a man of some position in
Capernaum, for he had two boats (Luke 5:4) and “hired servants” (Mark
1:20) of his own. No mention is made of him after the call of his two sons
by Jesus. - ZEBOIM gazelles or roes. (1.) One of the “five cities of the plain” of
Sodom, generally coupled with Admah (Genesis 10:19; 14:2;
Deuteronomy 29:23; Hos. 11:8). It had a king of its own (Shemeber), and
was therefore a place of some importance. It was destroyed along with the
other cities of the plain.
(2.) A valley or rugged glen somewhere near Gibeah in Benjamin (1 Samuel
13:18). It was probably the ravine now bearing the name Wady
Shakh-ed-Dub’a, or “ravine of the hyena,” north of Jericho.
(3.) A place mentioned only in Nehemiah 11:34, inhabited by the
Benjamites after the Captivity.