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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Zemarite

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: No
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Zemarite

The designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Genesis 10:18) who inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base of the Lebanon range. In the Amarna tablets (B.C. 1400) Zemar, or Zumur, was one of the most important of the Phoenician cities, but it afterwards almost disappears from history.


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Zemarite, the

one of the Hamite tribes who in the genealogical table of (Genesis 10:18) and 1 Chronicles 1:16 Are represented as "sons of Canaan." Nothing is certainly known of this ancient tribe. The old interpreters place them at Emessa, the modern Hums .


Naves Topical Index
Zemarites

A tribe descended from Canaan.
Genesis 10:18; 1 Chronicles 1:16