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Zerah

Mentioned 1868–1852 BC traditional (Jones)

Mentioned in 2 verses, first in Genesis 36:33.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

Child
Jobab
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Zerah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Bozrah2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1893–1827 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Genesis1
  2. 1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBZerah 21
KJVZerah 20
ASVZerah 22

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis1 verse
  1. 36:33

    When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 1:44

    When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.