Zohar (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. Father of Ephron the Hittite, On 23" 25'" [Zdap]. 2. The name of a Simeonite family, Gn 46'" (A 2dap, D ^ia\). Ex 6'" {:^dap) ; called in Nu 26'" and 1 Ch 4-^ Zerah (in former, BA Zdpa ; in latter, B Zdpcs, A Zdpof, Luc. Zdpa). 3. The name of a Judahite family, according to the ^irS of 1 Ch 4' (in^i ' and Zolinr,' which was followed in AV of IGli). The Kahlbh is ins- which in modern edd. of AV appears as ' Jczoar ' (an iiicori'L-ct transliteratiou of "ic^;) and in RV as ' Izliar' (i.e. "v^y). ZOHELETH, THE STONE (n'-ntn [jk 'the ser- pent's stone': B AIOt) toS ZueXtfle;, A rbv \l$ov ToO ZuiAfS). — The spot at which Adonijah prepared a sacrificial feast for all those who supported his claims to the throne of David (1 K 1"). The stone was doubtless a mazzrhd, and marked the site of an old Canaanite sanctuary. In ancient times ' living water ' was regardccl as inhabited by jinn, usually in the form of a serpent or dragon ; rf. ' the dragon's well ' (Neb 2") : hence such water was •This seems more prob. than the siibstitntion of 'Damoaeus (or 'beyond the Uiver,' which waa 8u^K(^'^te4) in Sahckl, I. a.nd II. ; see also Uudde, Hichter u. Sam. p. 260, note 3. W'inckler, Getch. /»ru.ls. p. 137 (., indeed, reject the whole or loui»« as redoctional, argiiin^ with some force that v.ifb really fonns ttie conclusion to vv.8-1* ; but, with the exception of tlio phrase ' beyond the River,' there seems do JustillcatioD tor doubting the geoulDeoeas of Ibe j>ajuia|[a. S88 ZOHETH ZOROASTKIAXISM itself sacred, and the source vhence it issued usually became the site of a temple (see W. R. Smith, US'- 170 f.). The actual position of the stone is somewliat uncertain, and depends on the identification of En-rogel ; the name seems to have been preserved in the modem ez-Zehindeh (see art. En-R(i<;i;l and the authorities there cited). Well- hausen (Skizzcn, iii. 171) suggests that the name Zoheleth may be connected with the Arabic Zti/uil = Saturn. J. F. Stenxi.Ng'. ZOHETH (n™)._A descendant of Judah, 1 Ch 4=" (B Zwdy, A Zuxie, Luc. ZaiiB).