Zuriel (Hastings' Dictionary)

A Merarit« chief, Nu 3" (SoupniX). On the precarious infer- ences which have been drawn by Hommel from the ciimpositiim and meaning of this and the names Zuri.ilftddai, Pedn/t^ur, and Eli^ur, see art. KocK, p. '290. ZURISHADDAI (•^i-)ii 'my rock is Shaddai or the Almighty '), — Father of Slielumiel the chief of the tribe of Siinetm, Nu 1 (B i^oupfuraJoi, AF ^ovpiaaial) J" \i.\ ^oupiirajai, F Zovi>w aiaei) 1"- ■ IU"(LXX in all three lofpurojoi). Ua the name see reference under Zuriel.

ZUZIM (0'i«n ; LX.X ISrr, Irxip^- — confusing with D'lvn or D'j«y ; Svmm. ZoifojiM*" ; Pesh. kjtv (pi.) 'the mighty'; Vulg. Zuzirn). — lT> (in 14' one of the prehistoric peoiiles whom rhe<lorla'omer is said 1 to have smitten on nis expedition against the kings of the l'enta|«)lis, descriited as resident in ' Ham' (which see), and mentione<l between the ' Kepha- im'of A.

sHTEROTH-KARNAlM (in Bashan) and the • Flmim ' (Dt 2""-) of the region occupied afterwards by Moab, The locality indicated corresponds to what «as afterwards the territory of the Ammon- ites, which is said in Dt 2* to have been occupied originally by the Zamzummim ; and hence it hai often been supposed that the two names were in some way or another ditl'erent designations of the same people,— a scribal error having found its way into one of the two paa.

sages, or the old prehistoric name having become modified in form in the coarse of oral transmission. In Babylonian m and te are represented by the same characters ; and hence Sayce(//Ci1/ 160f. ; Exjw.j. I'linrs, viii, 463) very in- geniously explained thedittereiK-e by the conjecture that in Dt 2* the name appears as it /<as actually pronounced, — or at least nearly so (Zuzim for ZnWZiWim), while in Un 14' it appears as it was written by a scribe who was translating from a Bab.

document {ZnMZeMim), and did not know what the true pronunciation was. However, before this theory can be accepted, better proof is needed than has hitherto been produced that Gn 14 was really translated from a Bab. original ; the strongly Hebraic style and colouring of the chapter do not favour the supposition. Whether the name is in any way connected with that of Ziza, a place 10 m, S",E, of yeshljon, and 20 m.

S, of Rabbath amnion, a military statitm in Roman times, mentioned also in the Middle Ages (see Dillm.), and still possessing remains of massive forta and other indications of its former importance (Tria- trani, Moab, 182-190), must be left an opec question. b K. Driver. I TBK UID OF TOL. IV. from which It was borrowed. lOOM 11/86 Scnc 000 460 010