5. An obscure name, mentioned (Jer. xxv, 25) in probable connection with Dedan, Tema, Buz, Arabia (2"i"), the mingled people ""ereb" (3")"n), all of which immediately precede it, besides other peoples, and followed by Elam, the IVIedes, and others. The passage is of wide comprehension, but the reference, as indicated above, seems to be to a tribe of the sons of the East, the Beni-Kodom. Nothing further is known re- specting Zimri, Ijut it may |)ossibly be the same as, or derived from, Zimkax {(j. v.). — Smith.
Zin (Heb. Ttiin, "jS [with il directive, Tsinah, njS, Numb, xxxiv, 4; or Tsin'nah, HiS, Josh, xv, 3], aJl'U [plain or palm-tree]; Sept. Si'i' v. r. 2ii'«, etc.; Vulg. liln), a wilderness ("27"?) '"" open, uncultivate<l region on the south of Palestine and westward from Idimia'a, in which was situated the city of Kadesh-barnca (Numb.
xiii, 22; xx, 1 ; xxvii, 14; xxxiii, 3G; xxxiv, 3; Dent, xxxii, 51 ; Josh, xv, I). It evidently was a portion of the desert tract between the Dead .Sea, (jhor, an<l Ara- bah (possilily including the two latter, or portions of them) on the east, and the general jilateau of tlie Tlh winch stretches westward. The country in (piestion consists of two or three successive terraces of mountain converging to an acute angle (like stairs where there is a turn in the flight) at the Dead Sea's southern verge, towards which also they slope. Here the drain- age linds its chief vent by the Wady el-Eikreh into the (Jlior, the remaining waters running by smaller chan- nels into the .\rab;ili, and idtimatily liy the Wady el- Jeib also to the (ihor. Jiulging from natural f'eatures in the vagueness of authority, it is likely that llie por- tion between and drained by these wadies is the region in question; but where it ended westward, whether at any of the above - named terraces or blending imper- ceptibly with that of Paran, is ipiite inicertain. Jose- phns {Ant. iv, 4, (5) speaks of a "hill called Sin" (Xij') where IMiriam, who died in Kadesh, wiien the people had "come to the desert of Zin," was iiuried. This " Sin" of Josephus m.ay recall the name Zin, and, being ajiplied to a hill, may, perhaps, indicate the most singu- lar and wholly isolated conical acclivity named Jlode- rah (iVIadura, or Madara), standing a little soiitli of the Wady Fikreh, near its oinlel into the (ihor. This would precisely agree with the tract of country above indicated (Numb, xx, 1 ; see Seetzen, lieiscn, iii, Hebron to Madara; Wilton, AV^ci, p. 127, 134). — Smith. See Kadksii.
Zi'na (Heb. Zina', N3^T, perhaps abundance; Sept. YaZ(i, Vulg. Ziza), second named of the four sons of Shimei the Gershonite (1 Chron. xxiii, 10). B.C. 1043. In ver. 11 he is called Zizah (q. v.), and some MSS. here have Ziza (S1"^T), like the Sept. and Vulg.
Zinzendorf, Nicholas Lkwis, Count von, D.D., founder of the Ilerrnlmters, or Moravian Brethren, was born at Dresden in 1700. According to his own ac- count (in his Xutural Ecjlections on Various Subjects), he aspired to form a society of believers from his boy- hood. On coming of age in 1721, he settled, with this object in view, on his estate at Berthelsdorf, in Upper Lusatia, and was there joined by .several proselytes from Bohemia. By 1732 the numbers who had flocked aroinid him amounted to six hundred, and all these were subject to a species of ecclesiastical discipline or monastic despotism which brought them in spirit and body, "or was intended so to do, under the most al)solute control of their leader. From an adjacent hill called the Iliith- bcri/ was derived the name of the colony, Huth des Herrn, contracted to Herrnhut, and from this the name of the sect. The appellation Moravian Brethren was assumed for his party by ccniiil Zinzendorf for the sake of coiniection with the separatists of B<diemia and Mo- ravia, partly derived from Valdo, the foreruimer of Lu- ther : .some of these, inilecd, were among his colonists. Zinzendorf assumed various titles as the chief of the Herrnhuters, all of which really pointed to a pontificate as his function. From 1733 bis missionaries began to spread, not only over parts of Europe, but in Orcenland and North America; even Africa and China were not forgotten. To him, in fact, Wesley was directly in- debted both for his religious organization and his mis- sionary plans which became so eminently successful, that indefatigable laborer having passed some time with count Zinzendorf at Herrnhut. The interfer- ence of the government with tiie count's i)rojccts can hardly be regarded as a measure of jiersecution, as se- cret doctrines were undoidjtedly held l)y him, and thus motives given to his followers, and objects sought, of which, whether good or evil, the established authori- ties could take no cognizance. The history of the seqt is curious and interesting. Next to its organi^l^on in classes, the use of singing, whicli furnished the Wes- leys with a valuable hint, is one of its most remarkable
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characteristics; under this head some singular details might be given. Something niiglit be said also on the connection of a certain marriage-rite with the theory of regeneration, the efficacy of which was probably tried by the Herriihuters in common with tlie Quakers. Count Zinzendorf died among his people, June 9, 1760. See MoiJAViANs. (W. P. S.)