2. Father of Jerusha, who was the wife of king Uz- ziah and mother of king Jothara (2 Kings xv, 33; 2 Chron. xxvii, 1). B.C. 755.
3. According to the genealogy of the high-priests in 1 Cliron. vi, 12, there was a second Zadok, son of a sec- ond Ahitub, son of .•Vmariah; and he is there given as the father of Shallum. B.C. cir. 700. He seems also to be referred to in ix, 11; Neh. xi, 11. Some critics are disposed to regard this name as an interpolation by a copyist's error; but the person in question seems to be the high-priest called J/osaiak m the Seder Olam. and Odeas (^Uc'tao) by Josephus (/In^x, 8, 6). See
HiGIl-FRIEST.
4. Son of Baana, who repaired a portion of the wall in the time of Nehemiah (Neh. iii,4). B.C. 446. He is probably the same as is in the list of those that sealed the covenant in Neh. x. 21. as in both cases his name follows
that of ^leshezabeel. But if so, we know that he was not a priest, as his name woidd at lirst sight lead one to suppose, but one of ''the chief of the jieoplc," or laity. With this agrees his i)atronymic Baana, which indicates that lie was of the tribe of Judah; for Baanah, one of David's mighty men, was a Netophathite (2 Sam. xxiii, 29), i. e. of Netophah, a city of Judah. The men of Tekoah, another city of Judah, worked next to Zadok. ]\Ieshullam of the house of Meshezabeel, who preceded him in both lists (Neh. iii, 4 and x, 20, 21) was also of the tribe of Judah (xi, 24). Intermarriages of the l)riesily house with the tribe of Judah were more fre- quent than with any other tribe.— Smith.
5. Son of Immer, a ])riest who repaired a portion of the wall over against his own house (Neh. iii. 29). B.C. 446. He belonged to the 16th course (1 Chron. xxiv, 14), which was one of those that returned from Babylon (Ezra ii, 37).
6. A scribe, one of the three principal treasurers ap- pointed by Nehemiah (Neh. xiii, 13). B.C. 410. He was perhaps identical with No. 4 or 5 above.
Za'hatn (Heb. id., CtjT, in pause DtlT, rancidity or fatness; Sept. Zarl/x v. r. ZaXaft and 'PooAo/i; Yulg. Zoom), last named of the three sons of Rehoboam by one of his wives (2 Chron. xii, 19), named Abihail (q. v. ), according to the common version, but, as Keil maintains, {Comment, ad loc.) by Mahath (Abihail being the moth- er of the latter). B.C. 973.
Za'ir (Heb. Tsair', ^'''S'l, small, as often; Sept. 2(wp; Vulg. Seira), a place named in 2 Kings viii, 21, in the account of Joram's expedition against the Edom- ites, as one to which he went with 'all his chariots. There he and his force appear to have been surrounded, and only to have escajied by cutting their way tlirough in the night. This is not, however, the iiiterpnetation of the Jewish commentators, who take the word j'^SOSl to refer to the neighboring parts of the country of Edom (see Rashi, On 2 Chron. xxi, 9). The parallel ac- count in Chronicles (xxi, 9 ) agrees with this, except that the words "to Zair" are omitted, and the words "with his princes" inserted. This is followed by Jose- phus {Ant. ix, 5, 1 ). • The omitted and inserted words have a certain similarity both in sound and in their component letters, nT'"JJ and T^'IO'C"; and on this it has been conjectured that the latter were substituted for the former either by the error of a copyist or in- tentionally, because t)ie name Zair was not elsewhere known ( see Keil, Comment, on 2 Kings viii, 21 ). Oth- ers, again, as Movers {Chronik, p. 218) and Ewald (^Gesch. iii, 624), suggest that Zair is identical with Zoar ("IJ'U or "ij-'lIS). Certainly in the Middle Ages the road by which an army passed from Judrea to the country formerh' occupied by Edom lay through the place which was then believed to be Zoar, below Kerak, at the south-east quarter of the Dead Sea (Fulcher, Gesta Dei, p. 405), and so far this is in favor of the identifica- tion ; but there is no other support to it in the IMS. read- ings either of the original or tlie versions. A third con- jecture, grounded on the readings of the Vulg. {Seira') and the Arab, version {Sa''ir), is that Zair is an altera- tion for Seir (~i*'"ir), the country itself of the Edomites (Thenius, Kui'Zffef. excffct. I/andb.'). The objection to this is that the name of Seir appears not to have been known to the author of the book of Kings. — Smith.
Za'laph (Heb. Tsalnph', v]^^, icound; Sept. "EiK'fip V. r. SfXf and 'E\t0; Vulg. Seleph), the father of Ha- nun, which latter rebuilt part of the wall of Jerusalem after the Exile (Neh. iii, 30). B.C. ante 446.
Zal'mon (Heb. Tsalmon', ""chlL, shady; Sept. 'S.tKfiwi' V. r. Sf\X(i))u, etc.; Vulg. Selmon), the name of a man and of a hill.
1. An Ahohite, one of David's warriors (2 Sam. xxiii, 28), called in the parallel passage (1 Chron. xi, 29) Ilai
ZALMON
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(q. v.), which Kennicott prefers {Dissert. \\ 187). See 1)aviu.
2. A mountain ("itl) or wooded eminence in the im- mediate neighborhood of Shechem, from which Abime- lech and his people cut down the boughs with which he suffocated and burned the Shechemites who had taken refuge in the citadel (Judg. ix,48). The reading of the Sept. here ('Epf.i(ov') is remarkable both in itself and in the fact that the two great MSS. agree in a reading so much removed from the Hebrew; but it is impossible to suppose that llermon (at any rate, the well-known mountain of that name) is referred to in the narrative of Abimelech. The rabbins mention a place of tlie same name, but evidently far from the necessary position (Schwarz, Palest, p. 137). The name Sideimijjeh is at- tached to the S.E. portion of Mount Ebal (see the map of Dr. Rosen, Zeitschr. der deutschen morgenl. Gesell. xiv, 634), and Jebel Sleiman is the name of a high conspicu- ous summit S.W. of and linked with Jlonnt Gerizim, having on it a tomb attributed by Mohammedan tra- dition to Sleiman el-Farsi {\a\\ de Veldc, Memoir, p. 354). The only high mountains around Shechem are Ebal and Gerizim, and Zalraon may be another name for one of these. The name of Dalmnnuthn has been supposed by some to be a corruption of that of Tsalmon (Otho, Lex. Rahb. s. v. " Dalmanutha").