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•ZAANAIM wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in Naphtali. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, “the wife of Heber the Kenite,” who had pitched his tent in the “plain [R.V., ‘as far as the oak’] of Zaanaim” (Judges 4:11).
It has been, however, suggested by some that, following the LXX. and the Talmud, the letter b, which in Hebrew means “in,” should be taken as a part of the word following, and the phrase would then be “unto the oak of Bitzanaim,” a place which has been identified with the ruins of Bessum, about half-way between Tiberias and Mount Tabor.
•ZAANAN place of flocks, mentioned only in Micah 1:11. It may be identified with Zenan, in the plain country of Judah (Joshua 15:37).
•ZAANANNIM =Zaanaim, (Joshua 19:33).
•ZAAVAN terror, one of the “dukes of Edom” (Genesis 36:27); called also Zavan (1 Chronicles 1:42).
•ZABAD gift. (1.) One of David’s valiant men (1 Chronicles 11:41), the descendant of Ahlai, of the “children of Sheshan” (2:31).
(2.) A descendant of Tahath (7:21).
(3.) The son of Shemath. He conspired against Joash, king of Judah, and slew him (2 Chronicles 24:25, 26). He is called also Jozachar (2 Kings
12:21).
(4.) Ezra 10:27.
(5.) Ezra 10:33.
(6.) Ezra 10:43.
•ZABBAI wanderer; pure. (1.) Ezra 10:28.
(2.) The father of Baruch, who “earnestly repaired” part of the wall of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:20; marg., “Zaccai”).