zevulun · Zebulun

What it means

zevulun (זְבוּלוּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Zebulun”.

A son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×10
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×6
• Judges×7
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “Elohim has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 46:14

  The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

• Genesis 49:13

  Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; he will be a shore for ships, and his border will be toward Sidon.

• Exodus 1:3

  Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

• Numbers 1:9

  from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;

• Numbers 1:30

  Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:31

  those of them counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:7

  Then the tribe of Zebulun; and the chief of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon,

• Numbers 7:24

  On the third day, the chief of the sons of Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon:

• Numbers 10:16

  And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun was Eliab son of Helon.

• Numbers 13:10

  of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;

• Numbers 26:26

  The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

• Numbers 34:25

  of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, a chief, Elizaphan son of Parnach;

• Deuteronomy 27:13

  And these shall stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• Deuteronomy 33:18

  And of Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.

• Joshua 19:10

  And the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the territory of their inheritance was as far as Sarid;

• Joshua 19:16

  This is the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families: these cities with their villages.

• Joshua 19:27

  and it turned back toward the sunrise to Beth-dagon, and touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el to the north, Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left,

• Joshua 19:34

  and the border turned back westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok, and touched Zebulun on the south, and touched Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.

• Joshua 21:7

  The sons of Merari according to their families received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.

• Joshua 21:34

  And to the families of the sons of Merari, the Levites who remained, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,

• Judges 1:30

  Zebulun did not dispossess the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol; so the Canaanite lived among them and became subject to forced labor.

• Judges 4:6

  She sent and called Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh of Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, commanded, ‘Go, march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun?

• Judges 4:10

  Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and there went up following him ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him.

• Judges 5:14

  From Ephraim came those whose root is in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. From Machir went down those who command, and from Zebulun those who carry the staff of the scribe.

• Judges 5:18

  Zebulun is a people that exposed its life to death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field.

• Judges 6:35

  He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and it too was summoned after him; and he sent messengers to Asher, to Zebulun, and to Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.

• Judges 12:12

  And Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

• 1 Chronicles 2:1

  These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

• 1 Chronicles 6:63

  To the sons of Merari, by their families, from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, fell by lot twelve cities.

• 1 Chronicles 6:77

  To the sons of Merari who remained, from the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands;

• 1 Chronicles 12:33

  of Zebulun, those going out to the army, ready for war with all the weapons of war, fifty thousand, and to form ranks without duplicity of heart;

• 1 Chronicles 12:40

  And also those near to them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on cattle: food of flour, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 27:19

  for Zebulun, Ishmaiah son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jerimoth son of Azriel;

• 2 Chronicles 30:10

  So the runners were passing from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun; but they were laughing at them and mocking them.

• 2 Chronicles 30:11

  Only some men of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 30:18

  For the majority of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover not as it is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May YHWH, the good one, make expiation for

• Psalms 68:27

  There is Benjamin, the youngest, who rules them; the officials of Judah, their throng; the officials of Zebulun, the officials of Naphtali.

• Isaiah 9:1

  But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. As at the former time he treated with contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, so in the latter time he will make it glorious, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

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