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the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7

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(zuhr) Place name meaning, “narrow” or “enemy.” Fortified town in the territory of Naphtali (Joshua 19:35 ), possibly identified with Madon which is conspicuously absent from this list. Commentators often take Zer as a copyist's modification, repeating the Hebrew for “fenced cities.” See Ziddin.

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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Zer'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hbd/z/zer.html. 1991.

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