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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Zimmah

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

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

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Zimmah

Mischief.

1. A Gershonite Levite (1 Chronicles 6:20).

2. Another Gershonite Levite (1 Chronicles 6:42).

3. The father of Joah (2 Chronicles 29:12).


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Zimmah

thought; wickedness


Naves Topical Index
Zimmah

1. A son of Jahath
1 Chronicles 6:20

2. Two Gershonites
1 Chronicles 6:42; 2 Chronicles 29:12


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Zimmah

(purpose).

  1. A Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath. (1 Chronicles 6:20) (B.C. after 1706.)
  2. Another Gershonite, son of Shimei, (1 Chronicles 6:42) possibly the same as the preceding.
  3. Father of ancestor of Joab, a Gershonite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:12) (B.C. before 726.) At a much earlier period we find the same collocation of names, Zimmah and Joah as father and son. (1 Chronicles 6:20)