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Zebah -- a Midianite king captured and slain by Gideon alongside Zalmunna
Zebah (zebach) is the proper name of one of two Midianite kings (the other being Zalmunna) who oppressed Israel and were pursued, captured, and executed by Gideon in the aftermath of the great Midianite rout at the Wadi Harod (Judg 7-8). The pair became paradigmatic examples of defeated enemies in Israel's memory, as Psalm 83:11 recalls: 'Make their nobles like Zebah and Zalmunna.' All twelve occurrences refer to this single historical individual. Cross-lingual evidence uniformly preserves the name: English Zebah, Spanish Zebaj, French Zebach, German Zebah.
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Senses
1. Zebah (proper name, Midianite king) — The proper name Zebah, designating the Midianite king who, together with Zalmunna, was pursued and slain by Gideon after Israel's deliverance from Midianite oppression (Judg 8:5-21). The name became proverbial for divine judgment on Israel's enemies (Ps 83:11). Conjunctive and prepositional variants ('and Zebah,' 'like Zebah') are syntactic, not semantic. Every target language preserves the transliteration unchanged, confirming monosemous proper-noun status. 12×
DISCOURSE_NAMES › Names of Persons and Places › Personal Names
AR["زَبَح", "وَ-زَبَح", "وَكَذَبَحَ"]·ben["এবং-জেবহের-মতো", "এবং-সেবহ", "সেবহ", "সেবহকে", "সেবহের"]·DE["Zebah", "und-Zebah", "und-wie-Zevach"]·EN["Zebah", "and-Zebah", "and-like-Zevach"]·FR["Zébach", "et-Zébach", "et-Zébah"]·heb["ו-זבח", "ו-כ-זבח", "זבח"]·HI["और-ज़ेबह-की-तरह", "और-जेबह", "जेबह"]·ID["Zebah", "dan-Zebah", "dan-seperti-Zebah"]·IT["Zebah", "[וכזבח]", "e-Zebah"]·jav["Lan-Zébah", "Zébah", "lan-kados-Zébah"]·KO["그리고-제바", "셀바-처럼", "제바", "제바-의"]·PT["E-Zevach", "Zevach", "e-como-Zeba"]·RU["А-Зевах", "Зевах", "Зеваха", "Зевахом", "Зеваху", "и-как-Зевах"]·ES["Y-Zébaj", "Zébaj", "y-como-Zebaj"]·SW["Zeba", "na-Zeba", "na-kama-Zeba"]·TR["Zevah", "Zevahı", "Zevahın", "mi-avucu", "ve-", "ve-Zevah", "ve-Zevah-gibi"]·urd["اور-جیسے-زبح", "اور-زبح", "زبح", "زبح-نے", "زبح-کی"]
Judg 8:5, Judg 8:6, Judg 8:7, Judg 8:10, Judg 8:12, Judg 8:12, Judg 8:15, Judg 8:15, Judg 8:18, Judg 8:21, Judg 8:21, Ps 83:11
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. זֶ֫בַח n.pr.m. a Midianite king Ju 8:5, 6, 7, 10, 12(×2), 15(×2), 18, 21(×2) ψ 83:12, 𝔊 Ζεβεε.