ZA'BAD, [h] (fear, terror, or
emotion),
called Jozachar, 2 Kings 12:21, an officer
at court, and one of the conspirators who
killed Joash, king of Judah, 2 Chron.
24:26.
ZAB'DI, [h] (a portion or
dowry), grand-
father of Achan, and the chief of a
family
in the tribe of Judah, Josh. 7:1.
ZABDI, one of the storekeepers of king
David, 1 Chron. 27:27.
ZAB'UD, [h] (portion or
endowed), a
favourite of king Solomon, 1 Kings 4:5.
ZACCHE'US,
Ζακχαιος (pure or
clean),
the chief collector of the Roman taxes
at Jericho, at whose house our Saviour
staid for the day when He passed through
that town, Luke 19:1-10. Jesus
calling
that notorious character, and the obedi-
ence of Zaccheus, dedicating himself to
the service of God in the ways of justice
and holiness, deserve special attention,
on account of the extraordinary circum-
stances attending that dispensation of
sovereign grace.
ZACHARI'AH, [h] (memory of the
Lord,
or man of the Lord), a wicked king of
Israel, who reigned only six months,
being killed by Shallum, who seized
the
vacant throne: thus Divine providence
accomplished the prediction regarding
the race of Jehu, 2 Kings 15:8-12; 10:30.
ZACHARIAS, the same as Zachariah, a
pious priest, and the father of John
the Baptist: his wife Elizabeth was
worthy
in her character of such a husband, and
in honour of their faith and prayers they
were blessed with being the parents of
the herald of the Messiah, Luke 1:5,
25,
57, 58.
ZACHARIAS, son of Barachias, Matt.
23:35. See ZECHARIAH.
ZA'DOK, [h] (just or
justified), a high-
priest of Israel, holding that office under
king David and part of the reign of
Solomon, having for his colleague Abia-
thar, called also Ahimelech, of the house
of Ithamar, Zadok being of the family
of Eleazar, 2 Sam. 8:17; 1 Chron. 24:
3; 1 Sam. 22:2; 1 Kings 1:1-8; 2:26,
27; 4:4. See AHITUB.
ZADOK, the father of Jerusha the
mother of Jotham, king of Judah,
2 Kings 15:32, 33. Zadok was a com-
mon name among the Israelites, Neh. 3:
4; Ezek. 40:46-48.
ZAPHNATH-PAANE'AH, [h] (a re-
vealer of secrets, or he to whom secrets are
revealed), a title of honour given to Joseph by Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
Gen.
41:45.
ZA'RAH, [h] (east or
brightness), a twin-
born son of Tamar by Judah, Gen. 38:
30; 46:12; Matt. 1:3.
ZAR'EPHATH, [h] (of the blowers or narrows of swelling), a seaport town on
the coast of the Mediterranean, midway
between Tyre and Sidon: it is famous
for the retreat here of the prophet Elijah, 1 Kings 17:9, 10, 24; Obad. 20;
Luke 4:26. See SAREPTA.
ZEAL, ardour of mind: this may be a
furious passion, as in king Jehu, 2 Kings
10:16, and in the persecutor Saul,
Phil.
3:6; Acts 9:1; or it may be a holy
concern for the honour of God, Psal.
69:9; 2 Cor. 9:2; Col. 4:13. God's
zeal is His holy regard for His own
honour, 2 Kings 19:31; Isa. 9:7; Ezek.
5:13. The Jews had a zeal for God,
but it was superstitious, and regarded tradition more than truth, Rom. 10:2.
ZE'BA, [h], or ZEBAH (victim, sacrifice,
or immolation), one of the princes of the
Midianites, slain by Gideon, Judg. 8:
5-21. See ZALMUNNA.
ZEBADI'AH, [h] (portion of the
Lord),
an adherent of David in his persecutions,
1 Chron. 12:7. This was a common
name in Israel, 1 Chron. 8:15, 17;
26:2; Ezra 8:8.
ZECHARI'AH, as ZACHARIAH, one of
the twelve minor prophets: he returned
from captivity in Babylon with the
prince Zerubbabel, and commenced his prophetical ministry about the same time
as the prophetHaggai, with whom
he
laboured in encouraging the Jews to
prosecute their work of rebuilding the
temple, which he is supposed to have
seen completed, Ezra 5:1, 2; Zech. 1:1.
ZECHARIAH, a prince of the Reubenites,
1 Chron. 5:7.
ZECHARIAH, a Levite, and learned as
a doctor, sent by king Jehoshaphat
to
teach the people the law of God, 2 Chron.
17:7.
ZECHARIAH, a faithful prophet of
God,
whom king Joash ordered to be put to
death, on account of his fidelity in pro-
testing against idolatry: this act of cru-
elty was the more atrocious, as the
prophet's father, Jehoiada, had been
the
preserver of the king's life in his infancy,
2 Chron. 22:11, 12; 23:11; 24:1,
2, 17, 20, 25. Our Saviour
is believed to
refer to this guilty act "between the
temple and the altar[,]" Matt. 23:35.
ZEDEKIAH, a false prophet of Samaria,
by whom king Ahab was counselled to
prosecute the war against the Syrians,
1 Kings 22:11, 24. Zedekiah was op-
posed by the faithful prophetMicaiah,
whose predictions were fulfilled, while
Ahab was deluded to his ruin.
ZEDEKIAH, a false prophet at Jeru-
salem, who violently opposed the minis-
try of Jeremiah: he is supposed to
have
been carried captive to Babylon, and
there to have been put to death for some
crime against the state, according to the prediction of Jeremiah,--"Zedekiah and
...Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted
in the fire[,]" Jer. 29:21, 22.
ZEEB, [h] (a wolf), a prince of
the
Midianites, defeated by Gideon and slain,
Judg. 7:25.
ZELO'PHEHAD, [h] (the shade, or
the
fear of being burnt), a chief of a family
in the tribe of Manasseh, whose five
daughters obtained their father's inherit-
ance, on condition of their marrying in
their own tribe, Num. 26:33; 27:7;
36:11.
ZEL'ZAH, [h] (noontide), a town
near
Ramah, supposed to be the same as Zelah,
Josh. 18:28; 1 Sam. 10:2; 2 Sam. 21:14.
ZEMARA'IM, [h] (wool, sap, or
succour),
a city of the Benjamites near Bethel, so
named from the Gemarite descending
from Canaan, Josh. 18:22; 2 Chron.
13:4; Gen. 10:18.
ZEPHANIAH, the second or assistant
priest with Seraiah, 2 Kings 25:18.
He was several times sent by king Zedekiah to consult Jeremiah on public
matters, Jer. 21:1; 29:25-29; 37:
3: but the prophet's counsel being re-
jected, after the taking of Jerusalem,
Zephaniah, Seraiah, and many others,
were put to death at Riblah, by order
of the king of Babylon, 2 Kings 25:18-
21; Jer. 52:24.
ZE'RAH, as Zarah, a son of Esau by
Reul, Gen. 36:13, 33.
ZERAH, a chief of a family in the
tribe of Simeon, Num. 26:13.
ZERAH, an Ethiopian prince, who
invaded Judah with a vast army in the
reign of king Asa, 2 Chron. 14:9, 13.
ZE'RESH, [h] (dispersed inheritance,
or crown of misery), the wife of Haman,
whose malicious counsel remotely occa-
sioned her husband to be hanged on his
own gallows, Est. 5:10; 7:9, 10.
ZERU'AH, [h] (aprons, wasp, or
hornet),
the mother of Jeroboam, the first king
of the ten tribes of Israel, 1 Kings 11:
26; 12:2, 20.
ZERUI'AH, [h] (tribulation of the
Lord,
or chains of the Lord), a sister of David,
and mother of Joab, Abishai, and Asahel,
2 Sam. 2:18; 1 Chron. 2:16.
ZE'THAR, [h] (olive of vision, or
olive of
the turtle), one of the seven chamberlains
or eunuchs of king Ahasuerus, Est. 1:
10.
ZI'BA, [h] (army, fight, or
strength), the
steward of Mephibosheth, the son of
Jonathan, the son of Saul: he was dis-
tinguished for his crafty duplicity, by
which he deceived David and injured
his master, 2 Sam. 9:2, 12; 16:1, 4;
19:17, 24, 30.
ZIB'IAH, [h] (deer, honourable,
or the
Lord dwells), wife of king Ahaziah, and
mother of Jehoash, king of Judah, 2
Kings 11:1, 2; 12:1.
ZIB'EON, [h] (iniquity that dwells,
or elevation), a Hivite chief, whose
grand-
daughter became wife to Esau, Gen.
36:2.
ZIM'RAN, [h] (song, singer, or
vine), the
eldest son of Abraham by Keturah, Gen.
25:2.
ZIM'RI, [h] (my field, my
vine), a grand-
son of Judah, 1 Chron. 2:6.
ZIMRI, a young prince of the tribe of
Simeon, who was slain with Cozbi, a
Midianitess, in a daring act of wicked-
ness during the plague of Baal-peor,
Num. 25:14.
ZI'ON, [h] (a tower, monument,
or sepul-
chre), the highest hill in the city of Jebus,
on which the royal palaces of Judah
were erected by David, whence it was
called the "city of David" in Jeru-
salem. Moriah, on which the temple of Solomon was built, was a part of the
same elevation, or an adjoining mount,
2 Sam. 5:7; 1 Kings 8:1; 2 Chron. 3:1.
The temple itself, and the worshippers
in it, sometimes have this name or title
of Zion, Psal. 48:12; 69:35; Isa.
1:27; Jer. 3:14; and it is frequently
applied to the [people] of God, both on
earth and in Heaven, Rom. 9:33; 11:26;
Heb. 12:22 [city]; Rev. 14:1 [144,000]. Jerusalem
having been several times laid in ruins,
Zion must have lost some of its natural
magnificense: still it retains much which
interests the traveller. Mr. Chateau-
briand thus describes its recent appear-
ance:--"Mount Sion, of a yellowish
colour, and barren appearance, is open
in form of a crescent towards Jerusalem.
This sacred summit is distinguished by
three monuments, or more properly by
three ruins: the house of Caiaphas, the
place where Christ celebrated his Last
Supper, and the tomb or palace of David,
From the top of the hill you see, to the
south, the valley of Ben-Hinnom; beyond
this the Field of Blood, purchased with
the thirty pieces of silver given to Judas;
the Hill of Evil Counsel, the tombs of
the judges, and the whole desert towards
Hebron and Bethlehem. To the north
the wall of Jerusalem, which passes over
the top of Sion, intercepts the view of
the city, the site of which gradually
slopes from this place towards the valley
of Jehoshaphat."
ZIPH, [h] (this mouth or
mouthful), a city
of Judah, famed for its being the retreat
of David, with its suburbs and wilder-
ness, when pursued by Saul, Josh. 15:55;
1 Sam. 23:14-26; 26:1.
ZIP'POR, [h] (bird, crown, or
desert),
father of Balak, king of Moab, Num.
22:2.
ZIPPO'RAH, [h] (beauty or
trumpet),
daughter of Jethro of Midian, and wife
of Moses, Exod. 2:15, 22. Nothing
par-
ticular is recorded concerning her, ex-
cepting what is said regarding their son
Eliezer, 4:24-26. Miriam and Aaron
appear to have been jealous of her influ-
ence over their brother, as on her account
there arose some serious altercation
between them and Moses, Num. 12:
1, 2.
ZO'AN, [h] (motion), a very
ancient
royal city of Egypt, situated near to the
Mediterranean sea, called in Greek Tanis,
Num. 13:22; Isa. 19:11; 30:1; Exod.
30:14.
ZO'AR, [h] (small or poor), a
guilty city
in the plain of Jordan, but spared at the
prayer of Lot, Gen. 14:8; 19:22: it
became of some note in subsequent ages,
as it is referred to by the prophets,
Isa. 15:5; Jer. 48:34.
ZO'BAH, [h] (an army or
warring), a
royal city in part of Syria, having its
king independently of another reigning at
Damascus, 1 Sam. 14:47; 2 Sam. 8:3.
ZO'HAR, [h] (white, shining, or
dryness),
a chief of the Hittites, Gen. 23:8.
ZOROB'ABEL, the same as Zerubbabel,
Matt. 1:12; Luke 3:27. See ZERUB-
BABEL.
ZUPH, [h] (that beholds or
watches, or covering), a head of a family in the tribe
of Levi, ancestor of the prophet Samuel,
1 Sam. 1:1; 9:5.
ZUR, [h] (stone, rock, or
that preaches),
a prince of Midian, Num. 25:15;
31:8.
ZUR, a son of Jehiel at [Gibeon], 1
Chron.
8:30.
ZURISHAD'DAI, [h] (the Almighty is
my strength), the prince of the tribe of
Simeon, when the Israelites came out of
Egypt, Num. 1:6.
ZU'ZIMS, [h] (posts of a door,
splendour,
or beauty), an ancient gigantic race of
daring people dwelling east of Jordan:
they were conquered by Chedorlaomer,
Gen. 14:5. These are supposed to be
the same people as the Zamzummims,
Deut. 2:10, 20.
