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זְאֵב

Zᵉʼêb · H2062 · Hebrew · proper noun · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Zeeb

    A man who was a chief of the Midianites, defeated and killed by Gideon

    Examples

    Judges 7:25 And they captured the two leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from across the Jordan.

    Judges 8:3 “God has handed over to you the leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger toward him subsided when he said that.

    Psalm 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, And all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Wild Animals001001002001
This entry carries no wild-animal sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared with the distinct lexeme זְאֵב (zᵉʼêb, H2061) and does not reflect an independent attested usage. See זְאֵב (zᵉʼêb, H2061).
Names of People003001007
זְאֵב is used as the personal name Zeeb, one of two Midianite leaders captured and killed by Gideon's men, as at Judges 7:25 — "they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb" — and Judges 8:3 — "the leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb."
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2062. Zeeb II. זְאֵב proper name, masculine (wolf) — a prince of Midian, Jdg 7:25 (3 t.…
H2062. Zeeb
II. זְאֵב proper name, masculine (wolf) — a prince of Midian, Jdg 7:25 (3 t. in verse); Jdg 8:3; Psa 83:12; also in
proper name, of a location יֶקֶבזְֿאֵב Jdg 7:25 wine-vat of Zeeb.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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