This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''Z'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
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* Zaanaim a., ''removings''
* Zaanannim
* Zaavan, ''terror,''
* Zabad, ''gift''
* Zabbai, ''wanderer, pure'' ''pure''
* Zabbud, ''given,'' ''gift''
* Zabdi, ''Gift of Jehovah,'' ''my gift''
* Zabdiel, ''gift of God''
* Zaccai, ''pure''
* Zacchaeus, ''pure; clean; just''
* Zaccur, ''mindful''
* Zachariah, ''remembered by Jehovah,'' ''remembered by the Lord''
* Zacharias, ''the Lord has remembered,'' ''Greek form of Zechariah,''
* Zacher, ''memento; recollection; commemoration''
* Zadok, ''just'' ''righteous''
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Zaham In the Hebrew Bible, Zaham, meaning "loathing", was the son of Rehoboam, king of Judah, and Mahalath. He was a grandson of Solomon
Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidia ...
, ''fatness''
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Zair
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Zalmonah
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, ''shady,''
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Zalmunna
''Zalmunna'' is a genus of plant bugs in the tribe Mirini
Mirini is a tribe of plant bugs belonging to the subfamily Mirinae.
Genera
'' Acanthocranella'' - '' Acanthopeplus'' - '' Actinonotus'' - '' Adelphocoridea'' - '' Adelphocoris'' ...
Zarephath Zarephath may refer to the following :
; Places
* Alternative name for Ancient Phoenician city Sarepta, now Sarafand, Lebanon
* Zarephath, New Jersey in the United States
;Other
* Raising of the son of the widow of Zarephath
* Zarephath Wines
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Zaza
Zaza may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Zazas, a group of people in eastern Anatolia (southeastern Turkey)
* Zaza–Gorani languages, Indo-Iranian languages
** Zaza language, spoken by the Zazas
People Given name
* Zaza Sor. Aree (born 1993), Thai k ...
Zebina
''Zebina'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Zebinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Zebina'' include:
* '' Zebina acicula'' Laseron, 1956
* ''Zebina adamsiana'' (Weinkauff, 1881)
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Zechariah
Zechariah most often refers to:
* Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), author of the Book of Zechariah
* Zechariah (New Testament figure), father of John the Baptist
Zechariah or its many variant forms and spellings may also refer to:
People
*Zechariah ...
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Zedad
Sadad ( ar, صدد / ALA-LC: ''Ṣadad''; syr, ܣܕܕ) is a town in Syria, 60 kilometers (37 mi) south of Homs, and 101 kilometers (63 mi) northeast of Damascus. It had over 3,500 inhabitants in the 2004 census, the majority of whom b ...
Zeeb Oreb (Hebrew language, Hebrew: עֹרֵב, ''Orev'') and Zeeb (Hebrew language, Hebrew: זְאֵב, ''Z'ev'') were two Midianite princes mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Oreb ()Zelah
* Zelek
* Zelophehad
* Zelotes
* Zelzah
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Zemaraim
The great Battle of Mount Zemaraim was reported in the Bible to have been fought in Mount Zemaraim, when the army of the Kingdom of Israel led by the king Jeroboam I encountered the army of the Kingdom of Judah led by the king Abijah I. About 500 ...
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Zemarite
This list contains tribes or other groups of people named in the Bible of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections.
A Accaba, descendants of
For the descendants of "Accaba" (1 Esd ...
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Zemira
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''Zemira'' like other works by Bianchi, was innovative. As Marita P. McClymonds explains, "Unusual components in this work are the opening t ...
Zephaniah
Zephaniah (, ) is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Tanakh, the most prominent one being the prophet who prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of Judah (640–609 BCE) and is attributed a book bearing his name among the ...
* Zephath
* Zephathah
* Zephi, variant spelling of Zepho. A son of Eliphaz, grandson of Esau and one of the “dukes” of Edom.Gen. 36:11, 15; 1 Chron. 1:36
* Zepho, variant spelling of Zephi. A son of Eliphaz, grandson of Esau and one of the “dukes” of Edom.
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Zephon
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Zeredathah Zaretan or Zarethan (Hebrew: צָרְתָן), also known as Zeredathah, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as near the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan River, Jordan (). In the books of Joshua (, KJV "Zaretan") and 1 Kings ( KJV " ...
Zia
Zia or ZIA (also spelled Ziya, Ḍiya , Dia or Diya) may refer to:
People
* Zia (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** A romanization of the Wu ( Shanghainese) pronunciation of the Chinese surname Xie (謝)
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Ziba Ziba may refer to:
*Ziba (biblical figure)
*Ziba, Lorestan, a village in Iran
*Ziba (gastropod)
*Ziba Shirazi
*Ziba Design, a Portland, Oregon-based design firm founded by Sohrab Vossoughi
Sohrab Vossoughi is an Iranian–American entrepreneur, p ...
Ziddim Ziddim was an ancient city in Naphtali. It is described in the Book of Joshua 19:35 as one of sixteen or nineteen fortified cities, the others including Zer, Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth.Bromiley, 1995, p. 1196.Neusner, 1982, p. 9. The Talmud ...
Zif
ZIF, ZiF or Zif may refer to:
* Zero insertion force, a way to connect an electrical connector without applying force to the connector
* Zero Intermediate Frequency, a radio demodulation technique
* Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, a class of me ...
Zimran
Zimran (; , ar, زمران), also known as Zambran, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first son of the marriage of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah. Zimran had five other brothers, J ...
Zoar
Zoar may refer to:
* Zoara, a city mentioned in Genesis as part of the Biblical Pentapolis
Places
;Canada
* Zoar, Newfoundland and Labrador
;England
* Zoar, Cornwall
;South Africa
* Zoar, Western Cape
;United States
* Zoar, Delaware
* Zoar, Ind ...
Zohar
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Zoheleth
Zoheleth - the serpent-stone, a rocky plateau near the centre of the village of Siloam, and near the fountain of En-rogel, to which the women of the village resort for water (1 Kings 1:5-9). There Adonijah (q.v.) feasted all the royal princes e ...
Zorobabel
According to the biblical narrative, Zerubbabel, ; la, Zorobabel; Akkadian: 𒆰𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 ''Zērubābili'' was a governor of the Achaemenid Empire's province Yehud Medinata and the grandson of Jeconiah, penultimate king of Judah. Zerubba ...
Zuph
Zuph meaning '' honeycomb'' in Hebrew
* According to the Books of Chronicles, a Kohathite Levite, a fact not mentioned in the books of Samuel. He was the ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1:1); called also Zophai in the parallel passa ...
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Zur
Zur occurs five times in the King James Bible as the name of various people and a state.
* The first mention is in . This is the pericope where Numbers 25:1 tells us that ''Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the ...
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Zuriel
Tzuriel ( he, צוּרִיאֵל) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was established in 1949 on land which had ...
*Comay, Joan, ''Who's Who in the Old Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1971,
*Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the men of the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing House (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1958
*Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the women of the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing 1988,
*Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing 1988,
*Tischler, Nancy M., ''All things in the Bible: an encyclopedia of the biblical world '', Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006 {{ISBN, 0-313-33082-4