Hebrew word · H2133

זֵיתָן

vezeitan

Zethan

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.10;

son of: Bilhan (H1092H);

brother of: Jeush (H3266H), Benjamin (H1144H), Ehud (H0164H), Chenaanah (H3668H), Tarshish (H8659I) and Ahishahar (H0300)

§ Zethan = "olive"

a Benjamite of the sons of Bilhan

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:10 וְזֵיתָ֔ן and Zethan

    The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

    Here: This name occurs only here. It is most likely built on zayit, "olive", so something like "olive-man" or "of the olive".

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.