Reference

Bible dictionary

3,964 entries on the people, places and words of the Bible, each linked to the passages it cites.

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.

• Zaanaim

  Wanderings;

• Zaanan

  Place of flocks, mentioned only in Micah 1:11.

• Zaanannim

  =Zaanaim, (Josh.

• Zaavan

  Terror, one of the "dukes of Edom" (Gen.

• Zabad

  Gift.

• Zabbai

  Wanderer;

• Zabbud

  Gift, Ezra 8:14.

• Zabdi

  Gift of Jehovah.

• Zabdiel

  Gift of God.

• Zabud

  Gift, the son of Nathan, who was "king's friend" in the court of Solomon (1 Kings 4:5).

• Zabulon

  (Matt.

• Zaccai

  Pure, one whose "sons" returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:9;

• Zacchaeus

  Pure, a superintendant of customs;

• Zaccur

  Mindful.

• Zachariah

  Remembered by the Lord.

• Zacharias

  (1.) A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David (1 Ch

• Zacher

  Memorial, a son of Jehiel (1 Chr.

• Zadok

  Righteous.

• Zair

  Little, a place probably east of the Dead Sea, where Joram discomfited the host of Edom who had revolted from him (2 Kings 8:21).

• Zalmon

  Shady.

• Zalmonah

  Shady, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num.

• Zalmunna

  One of the two kings of Midian whom the "Lord delivered" into the hands of Gideon.

• Zamzummims

  A race of giants;

• Zanoah

  Marsh.

• Zaphnath-paaneah

  The name which Pharaoh gave to Joseph when he raised him to the rank of prime minister or grand vizier of the kingdom (Gen.

• Zarephath

  Smelting-shop, "a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals", a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, alm

• Zaretan

  When the Hebrews crossed the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the priests were dipped in the water, the flow of the stream was arrested.

• Zareth-shahar

  The splendour of the dawn, a city "in the mount of the valley" (Josh.

• Zarthan

  A place near Succoth, in the plain of the Jordan, "in the clay ground," near which Hiram cast the brazen utensils for the temple (1 Kings 7:

• Zatthu

  A sprout, Neh.

• Zattu

  Id., one whose descendants returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:8;

• Zaza

  Plenty, a descendant of Judah (1 Chr.

• Zeal

  An earnest temper;

• Zealots

  A sect of Jews which originated with Judas the Gaulonite (Acts 5:37).

• Zebadiah

  Gift of Jehovah.

• 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

• Zebaim

  (Ezra 2:57;

• Zebedee

  A Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q.v.), and the father of James and John, two of our Lord's disciples (Matt.

• Zeboim

  Gazelles or roes.

• Zebudah

  Given, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:36).

• Zebul

  Habitation, the governor of Shechem under Abimelech (Judg.

• Zebulonite

  The designation of Elon, the judge who belonged to the tribe of Zebulun (Judg.

• Zebulun

  Dwelling, the sixth and youngest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen.

• Zebulun, Lot of

  In Galilee, to the north of Issachar and south of Asher and Naphtali (Josh.

• Zebulun, Tribe of

  Numbered at Sinai (Num.

• Zechariah

  Jehovah is renowned or remembered.

• Zedad

  Side;

• Zedekiah

  Righteousness of Jehovah.

• Zeeb

  The wolf, one of the two leaders of the great Midianite host which invaded Israel and was utterly routed by Gideon.

• Zelah

  Slope;

• Zelek

  Cleft, an Ammonite;

• Zelophehad

  First-born, of the tribe of Manasseh, and of the family of Gilead;

• Zelotes

  (Luke 6:15).

• Zemaraim

  (1.) A town of Benjamin (Josh.

• Zemarite

  The designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Gen.

• Zemira

  Vine-dresser, a Benjamite;

• Zenas

  A disciple called "the lawyer," whom Paul wished Titus to bring with him (Titus 3:13).

• Zephaniah

  Jehovah has concealed, or Jehovah of darkness.

• Zephath

  Beacon;

• Zephathah

  A valley in the west of Judah, near Mareshah;

• Zerah

  Sunrise.

• Zered

  =Zared, luxuriance;

• Zereda

  The fortress, a city on the north of Mount Ephraim;

• Zeredathah

  A place in the plain of Jordan;

• Zererath

  (Judg.

• Zeresh

  Star of Venus, the wife of Haman, whom she instigated to prepare a gallows for Mordecai (Esther 5:10).

• Zeruah

  Stricken, mother of Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes (1 Kings 11:26).

• Zerubbabel

  The seed of Babylon, the son of Salathiel or Shealtiel (Hag.

• Zeruiah

  Stricken of the Lord, David's sister, and the mother of Abishai, Joab, and Asahel (1 Chr.

• Zetham

  Olive planter, a Levite (1 Chr.

• Zethan

  A Benjamite (1 Chr.

• Zia

  Fear, a Gadite (1 Chr.

• Ziba

  Post;

• Zibeon

  Robber;

• Zibia

  Gazelle, a Benjamite (1 Chr.

• Zibiah

  The mother of King Joash (2 Kings 12:1;

• Zichri

  Remembered;

• Ziddim

  Sides, a town of Naphtali (Josh.

• Zidkijah

  The Lord is righteous, one who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh.

• Zidon

  A fishery, a town on the Mediterranean coast, about 25 miles north of Tyre.

• Zif

  Brightness;

• Ziha

  Drought.

• Ziklag

  A town in the Negeb, or south country of Judah (Josh.

• Zillah

  Shadow, one of the wives of Lamech, of the line of Cain, and mother of Tubal-cain (Gen.

• Zilpah

  Drooping, Leah's handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen.

• Zilthai

  Shadow (i.e., protection) of Jehovah.

• Zimmah

  Mischief.

• Zimran

  Vine-dressers;

• Zimri

  Praise-worthy.

• Zin

  A low palm-tree, the south-eastern corner of the desert et-Tih, the wilderness of Paran, between the Gulf of Akabah and the head of the Wady

• Zina

  Ornament, one of the sons of Shimei (1 Chr.

• Zion

  Sunny;

• Zior

  Littleness, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh.

• Ziph

  Flowing.

• Ziphah

  A descendant of Judah (1 Chr.

• Ziphron

  Sweet odour, a city on the northern border of Palestine (Num.

• Zippor

  A little bird, the father of Balak, king of Moab (Num.

• Zipporah

  A female bird.

• Zithri

  The Lord protects, a Levite, son of Uzziel (Ex.

• Ziz

  Projecting;

• Ziza

  Splendour;

• Zizah

  A Gershonite Levite (1 Chr.

• Zoan

  (Old Egypt.

• Zoar

  Small, a town on the east or south-east of the Dead Sea, to which Lot and his daughters fled from Sodom (Gen.

• Zobah

  =Aram-Zobah, (Ps.

• Zohar

  Brightness.

• Zoheleth

  The serpent-stone, a rocky plateau near the centre of the village of Siloam, and near the fountain of En-rogel, to which the women of the vi

• Zoheth

  Snatching (?), one of the sons of Ishi (1 Chr.

• Zophah

  Spreading out, a son of Helem (1 Chr.

• Zophar

  Chirping, one of Job's friends who came to condole with him in his distress (Job 2:11.

• Zophim, Field of

  Field of watchers, a place in Moab on the range of Pisgah (Num.

• Zorah

  Place of wasps, a town in the low country of Judah, afterwards given to Dan (Josh.

• Zuph

  Honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam.

• Zuph, Land of

  (1 Sam.

• Zur

  Rock.

• Zuriel

  Rock of God, chief of the family of the Merarites (Num.

• Zurishaddai

  Rock of the Almighty, the father of Shelumiel, who was chief of the tribe of Simeon when Israel was encamped at Sinai (Num.

• Zuzims

  Restless;