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Zaccur

Zaccur zak'-ur (zakkur, perhaps "ventriloquist" (Gray, Nu, 137)): (1) Father of Shammua the Reubenite spy (Nu 13:4). (2) A Simeonite (1Ch 4:26); the King James Version "Zacchur." (3) Levites: (a) a Merarite (1...

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Zaccur zak'-ur (zakkur, perhaps "ventriloquist" (Gray, Nu, 137)):

(1) Father of Shammua the Reubenite spy (Nu 13:4).

(2) A Simeonite (1Ch 4:26); the King James Version "Zacchur."

(3) Levites: (a) a Merarite (1Ch 24:27); (b) a "son" of Asaph (1Ch 25:2, 1Ch 25:10, Neh 12:35); (c) Ne 10:12 (Hebrew verse 13), and probably the same as in Heb 13:13, father of Hanan.

(4) A marginal reading in Ezr 8:14 for Zabbud where Kethibh is really "Zabud".

See ZABBUD.

(5) Son of Imri and one of the builders of Jerusalem (Ne 3:2).

David Francis Roberts

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