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# זֶרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2226

**Zarah** — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Zarah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2226/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֶ֫רַח²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2226/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (on form cf. LgBN77, and Anm.)— 𝔊 Ζαρα, son of Judah and Tamar Gn 38:30; 46:12 (both J), 1 Ch 2:4 (all זָ֑רַח), v 6; as head of a family Nu 26:20 Jos 7:1 (both P), v 18, 24 (JE), 22:20 (P) 1 Ch 9:6 (𝔊L Ζηρα), Ne 11:24 (cf. SmListen 7). Edomites: 𝔊 Ζαρε Gn 36:13, 17 (both P) = 1 Ch 1:37. 𝔊 Ζαρα Gn 36:33 (P) = 1 Ch 1:44 (b=a?). 𝔊L Ζαρα, Levites: (var. Ιααρα) 1 Ch 6:6. (var. Ζααραι) 1 Ch 6:26. head of a Simeonite family, 𝔊 Ζαρα Nu 26:13 (P), 1 Ch 4:24 (var. Ζαρες) (= צֹחַר 𝔊 Σααρ Gn 46:10 Ex 6:15, cf. Di Nu 26:13). a Cushite, 𝔊 Ζαρε, foe of king Asa 2 Ch 14:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zerah (11); of Zerah (10).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.26/#tree)

בֶּן־אֶתְנִ֥י בֶן־זֶ֖רַח בֶּן־עֲדָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Ethni the.son of.Zerah the.son of.Adaiah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah;

[1 Chronicles 1:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.37/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י רְעוּאֵ֑ל נַ֥חַת זֶ֖רַח שַׁמָּ֥ה וּמִזָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Reuel \[were\].Nahath Zerah Shammah and Mizzah

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2226.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2226/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).