Zebulun
Americannoun
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a son of Jacob and Leah. Genesis 30:20.
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one of the 12 tribes of Israel.
noun
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the sixth son whom Leah bore to Jacob: one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel (Genesis 30:20)
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the tribe descended from him
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the territory of this tribe, lying in lower Galilee to the north of Mount Carmel and to the east of the coastal plain
Etymology
Origin of Zebulun
From Late Latin Zabulon, from Greek Zaboulṓn, from Hebrew Zəbhūlūn, of uncertain meaning
Example Sentences
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Explains Headmaster Zebulun Tuchman of Jerusalem's largest school, the Rehavia Gymnasium: "Children who reached school age after the creation of Israel had no interest in the Jewish past, in Jewish literature, in Jewish religion."
From Time Magazine Archive
Naphtali is described as "a hind let loose," Zebulun as dwelling "at the haven of the sea."
From Time Magazine Archive
And Reb Zebulun replied: “They have to make do. Storybooks aren’t bread. You can live without them.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
The Jews themselves consent to this statement, and allow that the descendants of Reuben, Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, and Benjamin, are lost, but not extinct.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; After thee, Benjamin, among thy people; Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous
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