Zebi'na (Heb, Zehina', N3'^2'r, purchase; Sept.
T^ajiviv V. r. 'Lfjiivvcn:; Vulg. Zabiiia), one of the
"sons" of Nebo, who divorced his Gentile wife taken
after the return from Babylon (Ezra x, 43), B.C. 458.
Zebina. See ALEXAxnER,
Zeboi'im (Gen, xiv, 2, 8), See Zeboui.
ZEBOIM
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ZEBULUN
Zebo'im, a name which occurs in two distinct forms ill the original, denoting dilTcreiit localities.
1. (Ileb. Tsebolm', D'^SS^. gazelles, as often, Hos. xi, 8; or shorter, Tseboy'im', d1'3S [marg. D'l'IZS], Gen. x, 19; or n-'I'aS [marg. C^ia^], xiv, 2, 8 [A. V. '-Ze- boiim"] ; Dent, xxix, 23 ; Sept. 2f/3<i>£i^ v. r. St/Soti'/t ; Viilg. 'Aehuiiii), one of the tive cities destroyed by divine visitation in the vale of Siddiin (Hos. xi, 8), mentioned immediately after Adinah ((ieii. x, 19; Deut. xxix, 2o), and ruled over by a separate king, Shemebcr (Gen. xiv, 2, 8). De Saulcy tinds the site of Zeboim in the TaUia Sebdan, a name which he reports as attached to exten- sive ruins on the high ground between the Dead Sea and Kerak (Dead iSea, i, 383); but the position as well as the elevation is improbable, and the ancient spot is most likely beneath the water of the southern bay of the sea. See Sodom; Zoak.
2, (Heb. with the art. kats-Tsebdim', D"^"'35iri, the hyenas ; Sept. Za/<atij' v. r. ^ajiin, E(l3oti^, etc. ; Vulg. Seboim), the name of a valley (^5), i. e. a ravine or gorge, apparently east of Michmash, mentioned in 1 Sam. xiii, 18, where it is described with a curious minuteness, which is unfortunately no longer intelli- gible. The road running from Michmash to the east is specified as " the road of the border that looketh to the ravine of Zeboim towards the wilderness." The wilderness (miilba?-) is no doubt the district of unculti- vated mountain tops and sides which lies between the central district of Benjamin and the Jordan valley, and here apparently the ravine of Zeboim should be souglit. In that very district there is a wild gorge, bearing the name of Shuk ed-Duba, " ravine of the hyena," up which runs the path from Jericho to Mukhraas (Conder, Tent Work in Palest, iii, IG). It is represented on the new Ordnance Map as running for a short distance N.E. of Ain Duk. The same place or a town adjacent seems to be mentioned in Neh. xi,34 (where it occurs without the art. prefixed) — confounding it, nevertheless, with the Ze- boim of Genesis— as occupied after the Captivity. Rabbi Schwarz, however, maintains that the two places are dif- ferent, and, while locating the valley as above (Palest. p. 15G), he identifies the Zeboim of Nehemiah with " the village Zuba, situated on a high mount, three English miles west of Jerusalem" (ihiil. p. 13-t). He adds, "In [the Talmudical tract] Challah, iv, 10 is mentioned the Mount Zeboim." He doubtless refers to tlie ruined vil- lage Sola, about six miles west of Jerusalem, near Esh- taol ; but this has little probability.
Zebub. See Fi.y.
Zebu'dah (Heb Zehidah', T\'-i'^'l'i ; marg. Zehii- dah', mUT, bestowed,- Sept. 'liXoacf) v. r. EU\Sd(p, 'l(\\d, etc.; Vulg. Zebida), the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah, wife of Josiah and mother of king Jehoiakim (2 Kings xxiii, 36). B.C. 633.
Ze'bul (Heb. Zebul ,^"11, habitation ; Scpt.ZiPovX; Josephu.s, Z£/3or\oc), the chief man (^b, A. V. " ruler") of the city of Shechem at the time of the contest be- tween Abimelech and the native Canaanites (Judg. ix, 28, 30, 36, 38, 41). B.C. 1319. He governed the town as the "officer" (T^pS ; Sept. tTrifricoTrof; Josephus. ^i- vog [Ant. v, 7, 4]) of Abimelech while the latter was ab- sent; and he took part against the Caiiaanite.s bj' shut- ting them out of the city when Abimelech was encamp- ed outside it. His conversation with (iaal, the Canaan- itish leader, as they stood in the gate of Shechem watch- ing the approach of the armed bands, gives Zebul a cer- tain individuality among the many characters of that time of confusion. — Smith. See Ahi.mklkch.
Zeb'ulonite (Heb. Zehuloni', "'S'^nst; Sept. Za- fiovXoji'irriQ v. r. Zn/Boni'iV/jc)) the patronymic designa- tion of .1 member of the tribe of Zebulon (Numb, x.xvi, 27, "Zebulunite;" Judg. xii, 11, 12).
Zeb'ulun (Heb. Zebulun', once [Judg. i, 30] fully '(ibn^T. usually "i^int or [Gen. xxx, 20; xxxv, 23; xlvi, 14; Judg. iv, 6; v, 18; vi, 35; 1 Chron. ii, 1; vi, 63, 77; xii, 33, 40; 2 Chron. xxx, 10, 11, 18; Psa. Ixviii, 27; Isa. ix, 1] '"'ST, habitation; Sept., New Test., and Josephus, Zaj^ovXuiv; Xu\g. Zabulon ; A. V. "Zabulon," iMalt. iv, 13, 15; Rev. vii,'8), the name of a man and of the tribe descended from him, and also of a city in Palestine.
1. Tlie sixth and last son of Leah, and the tenth born to Jacob (Gen. x.xxv, 23 ; xlvi, 14; 1 Chron. ii, 1). His birth is recorded in Gen. xx.x, 19, 20, where the origin of the name is, as usual, ascribed to an exclamation of his mother — "'Now will my husband dwell with me (ijiibelini), for I have borne him six sons!' and she call- ed his name Zebulun." B.C. 1914. This paronomasia is not preserved in the original of the "Blessing of Jacob," though the language of the A. V. implies it. The word rendered "dwell" in xlix, 13 is "Sp"', with no relation to the name Zebulun. The Sept. puts a different point on the exclamation of Leah : " My husband will choose me" (a'lptTiti jut). This, however, hardly iinplies any difference in the original te.xt. Josejihiis (.4?^^ i, 19,8) gives only a general explanation : " a pledge of good- will towards her." In the order of birth, Zebulun fol- lowed his brother Issachar, with whom, in the history of the tribes and in their allotted territories in Canaan, he was closely connected (Deut. xxxiii, 18). His per- sonal history does not appear to have contained a sin- gle incident worthy of record ; and his name is not once mentioned except in the genealogical lists. In the Jew- ish traditions he is named as the first of the five who were presented by Joseph to Pharaoh — Dan, Naphtali, (Jad, and Asher being the others (Targ. Pseudo-Jon. On Gen. xlrii, 2).