Zabadaeans
ZABADANS.The name of an Arabian tribe defeated by Jonathan Maccabus, b.c. 144. According to the account in 1Ma 12:30-32, its home was to the N.W. of Damascus. Perhaps Zebedni, on the Anti-Lebanon, about 20 miles on the way from Damascus to Baalbek, represents the ancient name.
J. F. McCurdy.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Zabadaeans
zab-a-deanz (, Zabadaoi; the King James Version Zabadeans; Oesterley, in Charles, Apocrypha, I, 112, prefers, on what seems insufficient evidence, to read Gabadeans; Josephus (Ant., XIII, v, 10) by an obvious error has Nabateans): According to 1 Macc 12:31, an Arabian tribe, defeated and spoiled by Jonathan after his victory in Hamath and before he came to Damascus. There is an ez-Zebedan about 25 miles Northwest of Damascus (now a station on the railway to Beirut), on the eastern slope of the Anti-Lebanon range. This town may very well have preserved the name of the Zabadaeans, and its situation accords nicely with Jonathan’s movements in 1 Macc 12.