Zebulun | |
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זְבֻלוּן | |
.jpg) Painting by Francisco de Zurbarán from Jacob and His Twelve Sons, c. 1640–45) | |
| Pronunciation | Zəvulun |
| Born | 7 Tishrei |
| Spouse | Merishah |
| Children | Sered (son) Elon (son) Jahleel (son) [1] |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Reuben (brother) Simeon (brother) Levi (brother) Judah (brother) Dan (half brother) Naphtali (half brother) Gad (half brother) Asher (half brother) Issachar (brother) Dinah (sister) Joseph (half brother) Benjamin (half brother) Rachel (aunt/stepmother) |
Zebulun (Hebrew: זְבֻלוּן/זְבוּלֻן/זְבוּלוּן, Modern: Zəvūlūn, Tiberian: Zăḇūlūn;[2] also Zebulon, Zabulon, or Zaboules in Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus, was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers,[1][3] the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's tenth son), and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Zebulun. Some biblical scholars believe this to be an eponymous metaphor providing an etiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.[4][verification needed] With Leah as a matriarch, biblical scholars believe the tribe to have been regarded by the text's authors as a part of the original Israelite confederation.[5]
The Tomb of Zebulun is located in Sidon, Lebanon. In the past, towards the end of Iyyar, Jews from the most distant parts of the land of Israel would make a pilgrimage to this tomb.[citation needed]
- ^ a b Genesis 46:14
- ^ Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 1783746769.
- ^ Numbers 26:26
- ^ Peake's Commentary on the Bible
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia, Tribe of Zebulun