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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Zemarite (People, perhaps from Zemar)
A Canaanite people named for Zemar, a Phoenician coastal town under the Lebanon range. The Amarna letters call it Sumur.
First, in plain English
A Canaanite people named for Zemar, a Phoenician coastal town under the Lebanon range. The Amarna letters call it Sumur.
Who this is
Zemarites descended from Canaan and were named for Zemar, a Phoenician coastal town at the western foot of the Lebanon range. The city appears as Sumur in the fourteenth-century BC Amarna letters, where it served as an Egyptian administrative center in Syria, confirming its existence as a real Late Bronze Age settlement.
study-bible (ACAI + Tyndale)
The word
H6786
Where it appears
- Genesis 10:18
- 1 Chronicles 1:16
