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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Naphtali is described as "a hind let loose," Zebulun as dwelling "at the haven of the sea."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And Reb Zebulun replied: “They have to make do. Storybooks aren’t bread. You can live without them.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Hath not the Lord, the God of Israel: commanded, saying, 'Go to Mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
Zebulun Estey and Thomas Hart went to Gagetown while the war of the Revolution was in progress.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)
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