Zior
(smallness), a town in the mountain district of Judah. (Joshua 15:54) It belongs to the same
group with Hebron.
Ziph
(battlement), the name of two towns in Judah.
•In the south, named between Ithnan and Telem. (Joshua 15:24) It does not appear again in the
history, nor has any trace of has been met with.
•In the highland district, named between Carmel and Juttah. (Joshua 15:55) The place is immortalized
by its connection with David. (1 Samuel 23:14,15,24; 26:2) These passages show that at that time
it had near it a wilderness (i,e, a waste pasture-ground) and a wood. The latter has disappeared
but the former remains. The name of Zif if, found about three miles south of Hebron, attached to
a rounded hill of some 100 feet in height, which is called Tell Zif.
•Son of Jehaleleel. (1 Chronicles 4:16)
Ziphah
(feminine of Ziph), another son of Jehaleleel. (1 Chronicles 4:16)
Ziphim, The
the inhabitants of Ziph, 2. In this form the name is found in the Authorized Version only in the
title of (Psalms 54:1) In the narrative it occurs in the more usual form of ZIPHITES. (1 Samuel
23:19; 26:1)
Ziphion
son of Gad (Genesis 46:18) elsewhere called Zephon.
Ziphran
(fragrance), appoint in the north boundary of the promised land as specified by Moses. (Numbers
34:9)
Zippor
(sparrow), father of Balak king of Moab. (Numbers 22:2,4,10,16; 23:18; Joshua 24:9; Judges
11:25) Whether he was the “former king of Moab” alluded to in (Numbers 21:26) we are not told.
(B.C. 1451.)
Zipporah, Or Zipporah
daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the priest of Midian, wife of Moses and mother of his two sons
Gershom and Eliezer. (Exodus 2:21; 4:25; 18:2) comp. Exod 18:6 (B.C. 1530.) The only incident
recorded in her life is that of the circumcision of Gershom. (Exodus 4:24-28)
Zithri
(protection of Jehovah), properly Sithri; one of the sons of Uzziel the son of Kohath. (Exodus
6:22) In (Exodus 6:21) Zithri should be Zichri, as in Authorized Version of 1611.
Ziz
(the projection), The cliff of, the pass by which the horde of Moabites, Ammonites and Mehunim
made their way up from the shores of the Dead Sea to the wilderness of Judah near Tekoa. ( 2
Chronicles 20:16) only; comp. 2Chr 20:20 It was the pass of Ain Jidy—the very same route which
is taken by the Arabs in their marauding expeditions at the present day.
Ziza
(shining).
•Son of Shiphi, a chief of the Simeonites in the reign of Hezekiah. (1 Chronicles 4:37) (B.C. about
725.)
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(Frankie)
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