Zu'ar (Heb. Tsuar', ~i51^, littleness ; Sept. Scupop ; Vulg. Suur), the father of Nethaneel, which latter was the chief of the tribe of Issachar at the time of the Exode (Numb, i, 8 ; ii, 5 ; vii, 18, 23; x, 15). B.C. ante 1658.
Zubly, John Joachim, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born at St, Gall, Switzerland, Aug. 27, 1724. He was ordained to tJie ministry Aug. 19, 1744; took charge of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah, Ga., in 1760; and was a delegate from Georgia to the Con- stitutional Congress in 1775-76, but opposed separation from England, and returned to Savaimah, which his unpopularity forced him to leave. He died July 23, 1781. Dr. Zubly was a man of great learning and un- affected piety, devoted to his call as a preacher of the Gospel, and zealous for the success of his labors. He published. The Real Christian's Hope in Death, etc. ( Charlestown, 1756, 12mo), with a Preface by the Rev. Richard Clarke : — Sermon on the Repeal of the Stamp Act (Savannah, 1766, 8vo): — An Humble Inquiry into the Nuture of the Dependency of the American Coloiiies upon the Parliament of Great Britain, and the Riffht of Parliament to Lay Taxes on the said Colonies, by a Free- holder of South Carolina (1769, 4to) : — Sermon on the Value of that Faith without which it is Impossible to Please God (1772) : — Sermon on the Death of Rev. John Osgood, of Midioay (1773) : — The Law of Liberty (Phila. 1775, 8vo; Lond. eod. 8vo; Phila. 1778, 8vo), a sermon on Araerkan affairs. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Sprague, A nnuls of the A mer. Pul- pit, iii, 219; London Monthly Review, Feb. 1776, p. 167; Georgia Anulytic Repository, i, 49. (J. L. S.)
Zuph (Heb. Tsuph, wjl^, honey-comb [Gesen.J or moist [Fiirst]; Sept. "Sloixp v. r. 2oJ0 and 'S.ovir; but in 1 Sam. ix, 5 'S.i(p, apparenth- reading T\V^, Tsiph, as the text of the Heb. there does), the name of a man and of a place.
1. AKohathite Levite, the son of Elkanah and father of Tohu, or Toah. or Nahath in tlie ancestry of the prophet Samuel (1 Sam. i, 1 ; 1 Chron. vi, 35 [Heb. 20]). B.C. cir. 1310. In the parallel passage (1 Chron. vi, 26) he is called Zophai.
2. A district (VliX, land) at which Saul and his ser- vant arrived after passing through those of Shalisha, of
Shalim, and of the Benjamites (1 Sam. ix, 5), It evi- dently contained the cit\- in which they encountered Samuel (ver. 6), and that, again, if the conditions of the narrative are to be accepted, was certaiidy not far from the "tomb of Rachel," probably the spot to which that name is still attached, a short distance north of Bethle- hem. The name Zuph is connected in a singular man- ner with Samuel. One of his ancestors (see above) was named Zupli (i, 1 ; 1 Chron. vi, 35) or Zophai (ver. 26), and his native place was called Raniathaim-zophim (1 Sam. i, 1). The name, too, in its various forms of Zo- phim, Mizpeh, Mizpah, Zephathah, was connnon in the Holy Land, on both sides of the Jordan.
The only possible trace of the name of Zuph in mod- ern Palestine, in any suitable locality, is to be found in Soba, a well-known place about seven miles due west of Jerusalem, and five miles south-west of Naby Sam- wil. This Dr. Robinson {Bibl. Res. ii, 8, 9) once pro- posed as the representative of Ramathaim-zophim ; and although on topographical grounds he virtually re- nounces the idea (see the foot-note to the same pages), yet those grounds need not similarly affect its identity with Zuph, provided other considerations do not inter- fere. If Shalim and Shalisha were to the north-east of Jerusalem, near Taiyibeh, then Saul's route to the land of Benjamin would be south or south-west, and pursu- ing the same direction he would arrive at the neighbor- hood of Soba. But this is at the best no more than conjecture, and unless the land of Zuph extended a good distance east of Soba, the city in which the meet- ing with Samuel took place could hardly be sufficiently near to Rachel's sepulchre. The signification of the name Zuph is too doubtful to be of use in identifying the place. Zophim is usually considered to signify watchmen or lookers -out, hence prophets, in which sense the author of the Targum has actually rendered 1 Sam. ix, 5 — "they came into the land in which was a prophet of Jehovah." — Smith. Rabbi Schwarz re- gards the name Zuph as having the same root (from nSil, to spy out), and thiidis it denotes an eminence or look-out. He also (Palest, p. 156) ingeniously traces Saul's route, and seeks to identify "the land of Zuph" with Ramathaim-zophim itself. Wolcott (in the Bi- blioth. Sacra, i, 604) suggests that the city of Zipk (so the name reads in the Kethib and Sept.) gave its name to this whole region; but this town was too far south for that. It is probable that the district in question was a wide one, at least from north to south, and ex- tended from the hills of Ephraim to the vicinity of Bethlehem. See Ramah.