Dictionaries :: Zebah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Zebah:

man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Jdg 8). Zebah and Zalmunna had succeeded in escaping across the Jordan with a remnant of the Midianite host, but were overtaken at Karkor, probably in the Hauran, and routed by Gideon. The kings were taken alive and brought back across the Jordan; and confessing that they had personally taken part in the slaughter of Gideon's brothers, they were put to death (1Sa 12:11; Isa 10:26; Psa 83:11).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Zebah:

victim; sacrifice

Nave's Topical Bible

Zebah: King of Midian

Jdg 8:5-21; Psa 83:11

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Zebah:

and Zalmun'na (deprived of protection) the two "kings" of Midian who commanded the great invasion of Palestine, and who finally fell by the hand of Gideon himself (Judges 8:5-21; Psalm 83:11). (B.C. 1250) While Oreb and Zeeb, two of the inferior leaders of the incursion, had been slain, with a vast number of their people, by the Ephraimites, at the central fords of the Jordan the two kings had succeeded in making their escape by a passage farther to the north (probably the ford near Bethshean) and thence by the Wady Yabis, through Gilead, to Kurkor, high up on the Hauran. Here they were reposing their with 15,000 men, a mere remnant of their huge horde, when Gideon overtook them. The people fled in dismay, and Gideon captured the two kings and brought them to his native village, Ophrah where he slew them because they had killed his brothers.