Zerah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Zerah
     sunrise. (1.) An "Ethiopian," probably Osorkon II., the
     successor of Shishak on the throne of Egypt. With an enormous
     army, the largest we read of in Scripture, he invaded the
     kingdom of Judah in the days of Asa (2 Chr. 14:9-15). He reached
     Zephathah, and there encountered the army of Asa. This is the


     only instance "in all the annals of Judah of a victorious
     encounter in the field with a first-class heathen power in full
     force." The Egyptian host was utterly routed, and the Hebrews
     gathered "exceeding much spoil." Three hundred years elapsed
     before another Egyptian army, that of Necho (B.C. 609), came up
     against Jerusalem.
     
       (2.) A son of Tamar (Gen. 38:30); called also Zara (Matt.
     1:3).
     
       (3.) A Gershonite Levite (1 Chr. 6:21, 41).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Zerah, same as Zarah