Dictionaries :: Zimmah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Zimmah:

mischief. (1.) A Gershonite Levite (1Ch 6:20).

(2.) Another Gershonite Levite (1Ch 6:42).

(3.) The father of Joah (2Ch 29:12).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Zimmah:

thought; wickedness

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Zimmah:

zim'-a (zimmah, perhaps "device," "plan"): A Gershonite Levite (1Ch 6:20 (Hebrew, verse 5); also in 6:42 (Hebrew verse 27); 2Ch 29:12). See Curtis, Chronicles, 130, 134 ff.

Nave's Topical Bible

Zimmah: 1. A Son of Jahath

1Ch 6:20

Zimmah: 2. Two Gershonites

1Ch 6:42; 2Ch 29:12

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Zimmah:

(purpose).

(1.) A Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath (1 Chronicles 6:20). (B.C. after 1706)

(2.) Another Gershonite, son of Shimei (1 Chronicles 6:42) possibly the same as the preceding No. 1.

(3.) Father of ancestor of Joab, a Gershonite in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 29:12). (B.C. before 726) At a much earlier period we find the same collocation of names, Zimmah and Joah as father and son (1 Chronicles 6:20).