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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #2104 - זוּזִים

Transliteration

Zûwzîym

Phonetics

zoo-zeem'

Origin

probably from the same as (H2123)

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Zuzim = “roving creatures”

1) an ancient people of uncertain origin, perhaps, inhabitants of ancient Ammon east of the Jordan

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 1484 ‑ ἔθνος (eth'‑nos);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Genesis 1

NAS (1)

Genesis 1

HCS (1)

Genesis 1

BSB (2)

Genesis 2

ESV (1)

Genesis 1

WEB (1)

Genesis 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

זוּזִים proper name, of a people an ancient trans-Jordanic people, dwelling in הָם Genesis 14:5; otherwise unknown; abode apparently in (later) land of Ammon, between Bashan and Moab; commonly supposed = זַמְזֻמִּים q. v., in that case perhaps text error in one case or the other, compare Nö^{Untersuchungen z. Kritik d. A. T. 162.} — (ᵐ5 ἔθνη ἰσχυρά). — On proper name, of a location Ζιζα,

, between Bosra and Lejûn, compare Kn Di on the passage, Tristr^{Moab 182ff}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

זוּזִים Genesis 14:5 [Zuzims], pr.n. of a nation, the aborigines of the land of the Ammonites, inhabiting the borders of Palestine, perhaps the same as the זַמְזֻמִּים (which see). LXX. ἔθνη ἰσχυρά, so also Syr., Onk. Syr. [“Perhaps so called from the fertility of their country.”]

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List of Word Forms

הַזּוּזִ֖ים הזוזים haz·zū·zîm hazzuZim hazzūzîm