Lectionary Calendar

Friday, April 26th, 2024
the Fourth Week after Easter

Attention!

Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Zimran

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Search for…

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Zimmah

Next Entry
Zimri (1)

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

zim´ran ( זמרן , zimrān , from זמר , zemer , "wild sheep" or "wild goat," the ending - ān being gentilic; Skinner, Gen , 350): Son of Abraham and Keturah ( Genesis 25:2; 1 Chronicles 1:32 ). The various manuscripts of the Septuagint give the name in different forms, e.g. in Gen A, Ζεβράν , Zebrán ; Codex Sinaiticus Ζεμράν , Zemrán ; Codex Alexandrinus(1) Ζεμβράμ , Zembrám ; Dsil Ζομβράν , Zombrán ; and Lucian Ζεμράν , Zemrán ; in Chronicles, Codex Vaticanus has Ζεμβράν , Zembrán , Codex Alexandrinus Ζεμράν , Zemrán , Lucian Ζεμράν , Zemrán (compare Brooke and McLean's edition of the Septuagint for Genesis).

Hence, some have connected the name with Zabram of Ptol. vi. 7,5, West of Mecca; others with the Zamareni of Pliny ( Ant. vi. 158) in the interior of Arabia; but according to Skinner and E. Meyer (see Gunkel, Gen3 , 261) these would be too far south. Curtis ( Chronicles , 72) says the name is probably to be identified with the "Zimri" of Jeremiah 25:25 . It would then be the name of a clan, with the mountain sheep or goat as its totem. See TOTEMISM .

Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Zimran'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/z/zimran.html. 1915.

Bible Encyclopedias Zimran

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Bible Encyclopedias
Zimran