Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Zemarite is the ancestral name of a Canaanite or Phoenician people preserved in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry because the dataset expresses ethnonyms in genealogical form. First appears in Gen 10:18.1
AI summary: Zemarite matters because the cross references place the name among the Canaanite peoples through whom Genesis maps the land and its inhabitants. Like other ethnonym entries, it broadens Scripture's horizon beyond Israel to the peoples already present in the region. Taken together, the material presents Zemarite as part of the Bible's genealogical ordering of neighboring nations.1
Central Figure
Zemarite
The designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Gen.
The designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Gen. 10:18) who inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base of the Lebanon range. In the Amarna tablets (B.C. 1400) Zemar, or Zumur, was one of the most important of the Phoenician cities, but it afterwards almost disappears from history. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.