Bible Person
Meaning: same as Zarah · Male · 2 cross references
This Zerah entry refers to a Gershonite Levite in the worship genealogies, not to the Edomite king of the same name. He belongs to the sacred family lines through which Levitical continuity is preserved. First appears in 1 Chr 6:21.1
AI summary: This Zerah matters because his cross references place him within the Gershonite chain that sustains the remembered order of Levitical service. The distinction from the Edomite ruler is important because identical names recur in very different contexts. Taken together, the material presents this Zerah as a Levitical family figure in the continuity of sacred descent.1
Central Figure
Zerah
Meaning: same as Zarah
A Gershonite Levite (1 Chr.
Children
A Gershonite Levite (1 Chr. 6:21, 41). 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.