ZIDONIANS (e-do'hi-anz), (Heb. !see do-neene). The inhabitants of Zidon, (Ezek. xxxii :3o), who dwelt at one of the extremities of Canaan (Gen. x :19). Jacob makes Zidon the limit of Zebulun (Gen. xlix :13) ; but in Josh. xix :28, 29, it is the border of Asher. The Zido nians were not driven out (Judg. iii :3), and soon became oppressors of Israel (Judg. x :12).
The Zidonians adored Baal (comp. Ethbaal, Kings xvi :31) and Ashtoreth (1 Kings xi :5, 33 2 Kings xxiii :13).
Jezebel, Ahab's wife, was a Zidonian and the daughter of one of the kings (1 Kings xvi :31). The fashion of taking Zidonian women as wives had been set by Solomon (1 Kings xi :1).
Homer makes special mention of the skill of the Zidonian workmen. The embroidered robes of Andromache, the silver bowl given as a prize by Achilles at the games in honor of Patrocles, the bowl which Menelaus gave Telemachus, the purple of fierce Achilles, were specimens of Zidonian handicraft. Zidonian ships were pres ent at the siege of Troy, and Herodotus de clares that the Zidonian ships in the fleet of Xerxes were the best and the most renowned of the famous armada. Xerxes sat in a Zidonian
ship, and the king of Zidon sat near to him in council. Zidonians assisted in the work of build ing the Temple (1 Chron. xxii :4 ; t Kings v :6; Ezek. xxvii :8).
ZIP (zlf), (Heb. zeev, bloom), ante-exilian name of the second Hebrew month (1 Kings 37), corresponding with our April and May. This, the second month of the sacred, was the eighth of the civil year. The second month bore also the name lyar. J. R. B.
ZEHA (zi ha), (Heb. 'see- khaw', dry, thirsty).
1. The children of Ziha were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra ii:43 ; Neh. vii :46). (B. C. before 536.) 2. The first named of the two rulers of the Nethinim, resident at Ophel, after the captivity (Neh. xi:21). (B. C. 536.)