Zebina appears in Ezra's list of those who had married foreign women and were compelled to divorce them. The name is Aramaic, from the root meaning 'buy' or 'purchase,' possibly suggesting that the bearer was purchased as a slave or adopted. This reflects the linguistic environment of the post-exilic period, when Aramaic increasingly influenced Hebrew onomastics. The name's occurrence in this painful social-religious crisis list gives it historical specificity but no further narrative development.