Zebah

In Bible versions:

Zebah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a king of Midian

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victim; sacrifice

Arts:

Arts Topics: Zebah and Zalmunna, and the Ephod

Hebrew

Strongs #02078: xbz Zebach

Zebah = "deprived of protection"

1) one of the two kings of Midian who commanded the great invasion
of Palestine and finally were defeated by Gideon

2078 Zebach zeh'-bakh

the same as 2077; sacrifice; Zebach, a Midianitish
prince:-Zebah.
see HEBREW for 02077

Zebah [EBD]

man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Judg. 8). Zebah and Zalmunna had succeeded in escaping across the Jordan with a remnant of the Midianite host, but were overtaken at Karkor, probably in the Hauran, and routed by Gideon. The kings were taken alive and brought back across the Jordan; and confessing that they had personally taken part in the slaughter of Gideon's brothers, they were put to death (comp. 1 Sam. 12:11; Isa. 10:26; Ps. 83:11).

Zebah [NAVE]

ZEBAH, king of Midian, Judg. 8:5-21; Psa. 83:11.

ZEBAH [SMITH]

and Zalmun?na (deprived of protection), the two "kings" of Midian who commanded the great invasion of Palestine, and who finally fell by the hand of Gideon himself. (Judges 8:5-21; Psalms 83:11) (B.C. 1250.) While Oreb and Zeeb, two of the inferior leaders of the incursion, had been slain, with a vast number of their people, by the Ephraimites, at the central fords of the Jordan the two kings had succeeded in making their escape by a passage farther to the north (probably the ford near Bethshean), and thence by the Wady Yabis , through Gilead, to Kurkor, high up on the Hauran. Here they sere reposing their with 15,000 men, a mere remnant of their huge horde, when Gideon overtook them. The people fled in dismay, and Gideon captured the two kings and brought them to his native village, Ophrah where he slew them because they had killed his brothers.