Bible Dictionaries
Zemarites
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
A Hamite tribe related to the Hittites and Amorites. Sons of Canaan (Genesis 10:18). The targums identify with Emesa, now Hums. Bochart conjectures Samyra, a city of Phoenicia, on the sea coast, on the river Eleutherus; its ruins still are called Samra. (See ZEMARAIM).
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Zemarites'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/z/zemarites.html. 1949.