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זֶרַח

Zerach · H2226 · Hebrew · proper noun · 21 occurrences

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This name belongs to 6 people

Meanings

  1. Zerah

    Man; son of Reuel, son of Esau; Edomite chief

    Examples

    Genesis 36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

    Genesis 36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, and chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

    1 Chronicles 1:37 The sons of Reuel were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

  2. Zerah

    Man; father of Jobab, king of Edom

    Examples

    Genesis 36:33 Then Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah became king in his place.

    1 Chronicles 1:44 When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah became king in his place.

  3. Zerah

    Man; son of Judah and Tamar; brother of Perez

    Examples

    Genesis 38:30 Afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand; and he was named Zerah.

    Genesis 46:12 And the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

    Numbers 26:20 The sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

  4. Zerah

    Man; son of Simeon

    Examples

    Numbers 26:13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

    1 Chronicles 4:24 The sons of Simeon were Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul;

  5. Zerah

    Man; son of Iddo; descendant of Libni; tribe of Levi

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son.

  6. Zerah

    Man; son of Adaiah; ancestor of Asaph; tribe of Levi

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

  7. Zerah

    Man; king of Ethiopia; time of king Asa

    Examples

    2 Chronicles 14:9 Now Zerah the Ethiopian went out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

How it’s used In 7 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

10 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
Shine002001001053
This entry carries no independent "Shine" sense of its own; every tagged occurrence of זֶרַח (Genesis 36:13, 36:17, 36:33, 38:30, 46:12) is the proper name Zerah, not a common noun for shining or brightness. The domain is bundle-shared with the similarly-spelled common noun זֶרַח (zerach, H2225). See זֶרַח (zerach, H2225).
Names of People003001007
זֶרַח is the proper name Zerah (also rendered Zarah), borne by more than one Old Testament figure — an Edomite chief descended from Reuel (Genesis 36:13, 36:17, 36:33) and a son of Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38:30, 46:12).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2226. Zerach II. זֶ֫רַח proper name, masculine (on form compare LgBN 77, and Anm.) — 1…
H2226. Zerach
II. זֶ֫רַח proper name, masculine (on form compare LgBN 77, and Anm.) —
1 ᵐ5 Ζαρα, son of Judah and Tamar Gen 38:30; Gen 46:12 (both J), 1Ch 2:4 (all זָ֑רַח), 1Ch 2:6; as head of a family Num 26:20; Jos 7:1 (both Psalms), Jos 7:18; Jos 7:24 (JE), Jos 22:20 (P) 1Ch 9:6 (ᵐ5L Ζηρα), Neh 11:24 (compare SmListen 7).
2 Edomites:
a. ᵐ5 Ζαρε Gen 36:13, Gen 36:17 (both P) = 1Ch 1:37.
b. ᵐ5 Ζαρα Gen 36:33 (P) = 1Ch 1:44 (b = a ?).
3 ᵐ5L Ζαρα, Levites:
a. (variant reading Ιααρα) 1Ch 6:6.
b. (variant reading Ζααραι) 1Ch 6:26.
4 head of a Simeonite family, ᵐ5 Ζαρα) Num 26:13 (P), 1Ch 4:24 (variant reading Ζαρες) (= ᵐ5 צֹחַר Σααρ Gen 46:10; Exo 6:15, compare Di Num 26:13).
5 a Cushite, ᵐ5 Ζαρε, foe of king Asa 2Ch 14:8.

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

Sources

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