זְבוּלֻן
Zebulun
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2074 appears — 43 distinct verses across 11 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 4 verses
- Genesis 30:20 זְבֻלֽוּן n Proper Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 35:23 וּ/זְבוּלֻֽן conj + n Proper The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
- Genesis 46:14 זְבוּלֻ֑ן n Proper The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
- Genesis 49:13 זְבוּלֻ֕ן n Proper "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
Exodus 1 verse
Numbers 9 verses
- Numbers 1:9 לִ/זְבוּלֻ֕ן prep + n Proper Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
- Numbers 1:30 זְבוּלֻ֔ן n Proper Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:31 זְבוּלֻ֑ן n Proper those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:7 זְבוּלֻ֑ן זְבוּלֻ֔ן n Proper n Proper The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
- Numbers 7:24 זְבוּלֻ֑ן n Proper On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
- Numbers 10:16 זְבוּלֻ֑ן n Proper Over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
- Numbers 13:10 זְבוּלֻ֔ן n Proper Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
- Numbers 26:26 זְבוּלֻן֮ n Proper The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
- Numbers 34:25 זְבוּלֻ֖ן n Proper Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 27:13 וּ/זְבוּלֻ֖ן conj + n Proper These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
- Deuteronomy 33:18 וְ/לִ/זְבוּלֻ֣ן זְבוּלֻ֖ן conj + prep + n Proper n Proper Of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; Issachar, in your tents.
Joshua 6 verses
- Joshua 19:10 זְבוּלֻ֖ן n Proper The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families; and the border of their inheritance was to Sarid;
- Joshua 19:16 זְבוּלֻ֖ן n Proper This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:27 בִּ֠/זְבֻלוּן prep + n Proper and it turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand,
- Joshua 19:34 בִּ/זְבֻל֜וּן prep + n Proper and the border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 21:7 זְבוּלֻ֔ן n Proper The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
- Joshua 21:34 זְבוּלֻ֔ן n Proper To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,
Judges 7 verses
- Judges 1:30 זְבוּלֻ֗ן n Proper Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.
- Judges 4:6 זְבֻלֽוּן n Proper She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Hasn't Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
- Judges 4:10 זְבוּלֻ֤ן n Proper Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
- Judges 5:14 וּ/מִ֨/זְּבוּלֻ֔ן conj + prep + n Proper Out of Ephraim [came down] they whose root is in Amalek; After you, Benjamin, among your peoples; Out of Machir came down governors, Out of Zebulun those who handle the marshal's staff.
- Judges 5:18 זְבֻל֗וּן n Proper Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death, Naphtali, on the high places of the field.
- Judges 6:35 וּ/בִ/זְבֻלוּן֙ conj + prep + n Proper He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
- Judges 12:12 זְבוּלֻֽן n Proper Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
1 Chronicles 6 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:1 וּ/זְבֻלֽוּן conj + n Proper These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
- 1 Chronicles 6:63 זְבוּלֻן֙ n Proper To the sons of Merari [were given] by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:77 זְבוּלֻ֔ן n Proper To the rest of [the Levites], the sons of Merari, [were given], out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;
- 1 Chronicles 12:33 מִ/זְּבֻל֞וּן prep + n Proper Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40 וּ/זְבֻל֜וּן conj + n Proper Moreover those who were near to them, [even] as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 27:19 לִ/זְבוּלֻ֕ן prep + n Proper of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel:
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 30:10 זְבֻל֑וּן n Proper So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.
- 2 Chronicles 30:11 וּ/מִ/זְּבֻל֑וּן conj + prep + n Proper Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 30:18 וּ/זְבֻלוּן֙ conj + n Proper For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 3 verses
- Ezekiel 48:26 זְבוּלֻ֥ן n Proper By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].
- Ezekiel 48:27 זְבוּלֻ֗ן n Proper By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].
- Ezekiel 48:33 זְבוּלֻ֖ן n Proper At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
זבולון (Zᵉbûwlûwn) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Zebulun.” It first appears in Genesis 30:20. Spanning 43 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. For the data behind this summary, explore 43-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2074 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 43
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 43 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #810
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 810 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 43 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 43 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 17 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 16 verses · 37%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 23%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Zebulun 44×
- American Standard Version: Zebulun 42×, Tribe of zebulun 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zebulun 40×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zebulun 42×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2074 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2074 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2074 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2074 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. sixth son of Jacob and Leah
- 2. the tribe of Zebulun
- 3. territory of the tribe
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Derived from זבל (zâbal) (H2082) — to exalt.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זְבוּלוּן
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Zebulun,
- 1. son of Jacob; tribe of Zebulun; country of Z. Gen. R. s. 98. Pes. 4ᵃ; a. fr.
- 2. one Z. ben Dan. Kidd. 30ᵃ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 28 distinct written forms H2074 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זְבוּלֻ֔ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:77 | 6 |
| זְבוּלֻ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 33:18 | 6 |
| זְבוּלֻ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 46:14 | 5 |
| זְבֻלֽוּן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 30:20 | 2 |
| זְבוּלֻ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 48:27 | 2 |
| לִ/זְבוּלֻ֕ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 27:19 | 2 |
| בִּ/זְבֻל֜וּן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:34 | 1 |
| בִּ֠/זְבֻלוּן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:27 | 1 |
| וְ/לִ/זְבוּלֻ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 33:18 | 1 |
| וּ/בִ/זְבֻלוּן֙ | Noun, Proper | Judges 6:35 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבֻל֜וּן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:40 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבֻלֽוּן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:1 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבֻלוּן֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:18 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבוּלֻ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 27:13 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבוּלֻֽן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 35:23 | 1 |
| וּ/מִ/זְּבֻל֑וּן | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:11 | 1 |
| וּ/מִ֨/זְּבוּלֻ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Judges 5:14 | 1 |
| זְ֝בֻל֗וּן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 68:27 | 1 |
| זְבֻל֑וּן | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:10 | 1 |
| זְבֻל֗וּן | Noun, Proper | Judges 5:18 | 1 |
| זְבֻלוּן֙ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 9:1 | 1 |
| זְבוּלֻ֕ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 49:13 | 1 |
| זְבוּלֻ֤ן | Noun, Proper | Judges 4:10 | 1 |
| זְבוּלֻ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 48:26 | 1 |
| זְבוּלֻֽן | Noun, Proper | Judges 12:12 | 1 |
| זְבוּלֻן֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:63 | 1 |
| זְבוּלֻן֮ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 26:26 | 1 |
| מִ/זְּבֻל֞וּן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2074, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zebulun). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Dwelling, the sixth and youngest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 30:20). Little is known of his personal history. He had three sons (46:14).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a habitation), the tenth of the sons of Jacob, according to the order in which their births are enumerated, the sixth and last of Leah. (Genesis 30:20; 35:23; 46:14; 1 Chronicles 2:1) His birth is mentioned in (Genesis 30:19,20) Of the individual Zebulun nothing is recorded. The list of Genesis46 ascribes to him three sons, founders of the chief families of the tribe (comp.) (Numbers 26:26) at the time of the migration to Egypt. The tribe is not recorded to have taken part, for evil or good, in any of the events of the wandering or the conquest. The statement of Josephus is probably in the main correct, that it reached on the one side to the Lake of Gennesareth and on the other to Carmel and the Mediterranean. On the south it was bounded by Issachar, who lay in the great plain or valley of the Kishon; on the north it had Naphtali and Asher. Thus remote from the centre of government, Zebulun remains throughout the history with one exception, in the obscurity which envelops the whole of the northern tribes. That exception, however, is a remarkable one. The conduct of the tribe during the struggle with Sisera, when they fought with desperate valor side by side with their brethren of Naphtali, was such as to draw down the special praise of Deborah, who singles them out from cell the other tribes. (Judges 5:18)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
Zebulon, dwelling; habitation
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 42 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 43 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 30:20
- Exodus 1:3
- Numbers 1:9
- Deuteronomy 27:13
- Joshua 19:10
- Judges 1:30
- 1 Chronicles 2:1
- 2 Chronicles 30:10
- Psalms 68:27
- Isaiah 9:1
- Ezekiel 48:26
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
