the Zuzim(s)

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• Zuzim — The Zuzim (meaning restless or sprouting ) were a primitive tribe who lived in Ham, a land east of the Jordan River between Bashan and Moab, according to the Hebrew Bible. The Zuzim were conquered by the Elamite King Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14:5).… …   Wikipedia

• Zuzim — A people said to have been conquered by Chedorlaomer, one of the four kings (Gen. 14:1) who fought in the valley of the Dead Sea (Gen. 14:3–5). They may have existed to the north of Mount Gilboa …   Dictionary of the Bible

• Insight on the Scriptures — is a hard cover two volume Biblical reference work, published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania in 1988. Both volumes are 1,280 pages long, with volume 1 covering topics Aaron to Jehoshua, and volume 2 covering Jehovah… …   Wikipedia

• Cana, Canaanites —     Cana, Canaanites     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Cana, Canaanites     (Canaan, Canaanites).     The Hebrew word Kenaan, denoting a person, occurs:     ♦ in the Old Testament as the name of one of Ham s sons;     ♦ in a lengthened form, Kenaanah …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Lech-Lecha — Lech Lecha, Lekh Lekha, or Lech L cha (לך לך Hebrew for go!” or leave! or go for you the first two words in the parshah) is the third weekly Torah portion ( parshah ) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis [http://www …   Wikipedia

• HAM — (Heb. הָם), biblical city in Transjordan where Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and his allies defeated the Zuzim in their campaign against the rebellious Canaanite kings (Gen. 14:5). In this biblical reference, Ham appears between Ashteroth Karnaim… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• PROVERBS, TALMUDIC — The Talmud abounds in proverbs of all kinds. Important sources are the tractates Avot, Avot de Rabbi Nathan, Derekh Ereẓ Rabbah, and Derekh Ereẓ Zuta, and numbers of proverbs occur together in several smaller collections (BK 92a–b; Bek. 17a; et… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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• Takkanah — A takkanah is a major legislative enactment within halakha (Jewish law), the normative system of Judaism s laws.A takkanah is an enactment which (1) revises an ordinance that no longer satisfies the requirements of the times or circumstances, or… …   Wikipedia

• DOWRY — (Heb. נְדֻנְיָה), the property a wife brings to her husband at marriage; the Yiddish equivalent, nadn, is from the same root. The custom of nedunyah became clearly defined and institutionalized only in the talmudic period. In biblical times,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• KETUBBOT — KETUBBAH (Heb.כְּתֻבּוֹת; Marriage Contracts ), second tractate in the order Nashim, dealing with rights and duties arising out of the contract of marriage. Ketubbah, literally, that which is written, denotes in this tractate not so much the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism