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Zebulun

Biblical figure and son of Jacob and Leah

Field	Value
name	Zebulun
image	Zebulun (Francisco de Zurbarán).jpg
caption	Painting by Francisco de Zurbarán from Jacob and His Twelve Sons, c. 1640–45)
native_name	זְבֻלוּן
native_name_lang	he
pronunciation	Zəvulun
birth_place	Paddan Aram
birth_date	7 Tishrei
father	Jacob
mother	Leah
spouse	Merishah
children	Sered (son)
Elon (son)
Jahleel (son)

<ref name	"Genesis 46:14"Genesis 46:14
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)

Note

the Biblical figure

Elon (son) Jahleel (son)

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 (; also Zebulon, Zabulon, or Zaboules in Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus) was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers, the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's tenth son), and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Zebulun. 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.

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.

Etymology

The name is derived from the triliteral root , common in 2nd millennium BCE Ugaritic texts as an epithet (title) of the god Baal, as well as in Phoenician and (frequently) in Biblical Hebrew in personal names.

The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name Zebulun, which textual scholars attribute to different sources – one to the Jahwist and the other to the Elohist; the first being that it derives from zebed, the word for gift, from Leah's view that her gaining of six sons was a gift from God; the second being that it derives from yizbeleni, meaning honour, for Leah's hope that Jacob would give her honour now that she had given birth to six sons. In Deuteronomy 33, however, an allusion is made to a third potential etymology: that it may be connected with zibhe, literally meaning sacrifice, about commercial activities of the tribe of Zebulun – a commercial agreement made at Mount Tabor between the tribe of Zebulun and a group of non-Israelites was referred to as zibhe-tzedek, literally meaning sacrifice to justice or sacrifice to Tzedek.

Biblical account

The Torah states that Zebulun had three sons – Sered, Elon, and Jahleel – each the eponymous founder of a clan.

They risked their lives on the battlefield with Naphtali from Judges 5's Song of Deborah and Barak: "Zebulun is a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also -- on high places of the field."

Druze

In the Druze faith, the prophet Sabalan is often identified with Zebulun. Sabalan's Tomb is located in the village Hurfeish.

References

Genesis 46:14
Khan, Geoffrey. (2020). "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1.". Open Book Publishers.
Numbers 26:26
''Jewish Encyclopedia'', ''Tribe of Zebulun''
"PILGRIMAGE - JewishEncyclopedia.com".
[http://www.asor.org/seal.article.html "Precarious Scholarship: Problems with Proposing that the Seal of Yzbl was Queen Jezebel's", Christopher A. Rollston, BASOR 2007] {{Webarchive. link. (2007-12-26 . The article concerns a seal ascribed to Jezebel; the first paragraph gives an overview of the root /zbl/, which Jezebel shares with Zebulun.)
[[Richard Elliott Friedman]], ''Who wrote the Bible''
''Jewish Encyclopedia''
Dr. Naim Aridi. "The Druze in Israel".

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