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Zabid (A-Z entry)
site located centrally across the 50-km wide coastal plain of the Tihama, in the Republic of Yemen (14°12′ N, 43°19′ E). Founded in 820 ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Zacchaeus (A-Z entry)
A tax collector who climbed a tree to get a better view of Jesus in Jericho ( Luke 19: 1–10 ).
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zacharias (A-Z entry)
See zechariah .
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zadok (A-Z entry)
was one of two priests who served David at the Jerusalem shrine ( 2 Sm. 15.24–29 ). Solomon banished Abiathar , David's 1 Kgs. ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Zadok (A-Z entry)
A priest in the time of David ( 2 Sam. 20: 25 ). He supported David during the revolt of his son Absalom and ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zadok, Sons Of (A-Z entry)
The expression Sons of Zadok is found in the Hebrew scriptures only in Ezekiel , and here only three times ( Ezek . 40.46 ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Zadok, Zadokites (A-Z entry)
Zadok was one of David 's two priests ( 2 Sam. 15.24–29 , 36 ; 17.15 ; 19.11 ; 20.25 15.11 16.39 ; cf. ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Zadokite Fragments (A-Z entry)
See Damascus Document .
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Zadokite fragments (A-Z entry)
Also known as the Damascus Document , similar to the Manual of Discipline from Qumran , containing the rules of the community . This ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zadokites (A-Z entry)
See Zadok, Sons of .
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Ẓafar (A-Z entry)
capital of the South Arabian kingdom of Ḥimyar, located approximately 8 km (5 mi.) south-southeast of the modern Yemeni town of Yarim and approximately ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Zakkur Inscription (A-Z entry)
The ZKR inscription occupies the front (A. 1–17), right (B. 1–28), and left sides (C. 1–2) of a fragmentary basalt stela discovered in 1903 ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Zaphon (A-Z entry)
The Hebrew word ⊡āpôn is one of the ordinary words for “north”; this is its most frequent meaning in the Bible, but it is ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Zarephath (A-Z entry)
A port on the coast of Phoenicia where Elijah was given accommodation by a widow; he supplied her with food and restored her dying ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
zeal (A-Z entry)
Used in NT in both a bad sense—translated ‘jealousy’ ( Acts 5: 17 , NRSV, REB, NJB)—and a good sense ( 2 Cor. 7: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zealot (A-Z entry)
Zealot is a term that has been associated with a movement of revolutionaries active throughout the first century CE in Roman Palestine and thus ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Zealots (A-Z entry)
Those prepared to take up arms against the Romans occupying Palestine. As a group they came into existence at the beginning of the Jewish ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zealots (A-Z entry)
The goal of the Zealots, a party of uncompromising revolutionaries, was to free Judea from Roman rule. They took an active role in the ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Zebedee (A-Z entry)
The father and partner of James and John ( Mark 1: 19–20 ) and a fisherman who employed staff ( Mark 1: 20 ). ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zeboim (A-Z entry)
A valley near Michmash ( 1 Sam. 13: 17–18 ). A town near Lydda where some of the returning exiles settled ( Neh. 11: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
