Zair
(Heb. Tsair’, , small, as often; Sept. ; Vulg. SeirCa), a place named in 2Ki 8:21, in the account of Joram’s expedition against the Edomites, as one to which he went with all his chariots. There he and his force appear to have been surrounded, and only to have escaped by cutting their way through in the night. This is not, however, the interpretation of the Jewish commentators, who take the word to refer to the neighboring parts of the country of Edom (see Rashi, On 2Ch 21:9).
The parallel account in Chronicles (2Ch 21:9) agrees with this, except that the words to Zair are omitted, and the words with his princes inserted. This is followed by Josephus (Ant. 9:5, 1). The omitted and inserted words have a certain similarity both in sound and in their component letters, and ; and on this it has been conjectured that the latter were substituted for the former either by’ the error of a copyist or intentionally, because the name Zair was not elsewhere known (see Keil, Comment. on 2Ki 8:21). Others, again, as Movers (Chronik, p. 218) and Ewald (Gesch. 3, 524), suggest that Zair is identical with Zoar ( or ). Certainly in the Middle Ages the road by which an army passed from Judea to the country formerly occupied bit Eldom lay through the place which was then believed to be Zoar, below Kerak, at the south-east quarter of the Dead Sea (Fulcher, Gesta Dei, p. 405), and so far this is in favor of the identification; but there is no other support to it in the MS. readings either of the original or the versions. A third conjecture, grounded on the readings of the Vulg. (Seira) and the Arab. version (Sa’i’), is that Zair is an alteration for Seir (), the country itself of the Edomites (Thenius, Kurzgef. exeget. Handb.). The objection to this is that the name of Seir appears not to have been knovwn. to the author of the book of Kings,
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Zair (2)
Conder suggests (Hand-book to the Bible, page 427) that this is “perhaps the ruin Zueireh on the south-west shore of the Dead Sea.” Zallwein, GREGORIUS, a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born at Obervinchtach, in the Palatinate, October 20, 1712. In 1733 he joined the order of the Benedictines, and received holy orders in 1737. In 1744 he was elected prior of the monastery at Wessobrunn, and shortly afterwards was called to Strasburg, in Carinthia, as professor of theology, Church history, and canon law. In 1749 he was called to the Salzburg University, and died August 9, 1766. Of his publications, we mention, Fontes Originarii Juris Canonici, etc. (Salzburg, 1754-55): Jus Ecclesiasticum Particulare Germanice ab Era Christi usque ad Carolumn IX Imp. (ibid. 1757): Collectiones Juris Ecclesiastici Antiqui et Novi, etc. (ibid. 1760): Principia Juris Ecclesiastice Universalis et Particularis Genrmanica (1763 sq. 4 volumes). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:770; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:8. (B.P.)
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Zair
little, a place probably east of the Dead Sea, where Joram discomfited the host of Edom who had revolted from him (2 Kings 8:21).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Zair
(“little”.) 2Ki 8:21. A place in Idumea where Joram defeated Edom after having been first shut in, then cutting his way through; 2Ch 21:9, omit Zair and have instead im saraio, “with his captains.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Zair
ZAIR.According to the MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] of 2Ki 8:21, Joram, in the course of his campaign against Edom, passed over to Zair. In the parallel passage, 2Ch 21:9, the Heb. is passed over with his princes, which may be confidently pronounced to be a corruption of the text in Kings. The latter itself is unfortunately not certainso that the identification of the place in question is impossible.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Zair
zair (, car; , Zeior): When he invaded Edom, we are told that Joram passed over to Zair and all his chariots with him (2Ki 8:21). In the parallel passage (2Ch 21:9), with his captains ( , m sarayw) takes the place of to Zair (, carah), probably a copyist’s corruption. The place has not been identified. Some have thought that Mt. Seir is intended; others that it means the town of Zoar. Conder suggested ez-Zuweirah, Southeast of the Dead Sea. If Zoar lay in this direction, it is the way by which an invading army might enter Edom.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Zair
[Za’ir]
Place in Edom where Joram attacked the Edomites. 2Ki 8:21; cf. 2Ch 21:9. Not identified.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Zair
H6811
A city in Edom.
2Ki 8:21
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Zair
Za’ir. (small). A place named in 2Ki 8:21 only, in the account of Joram’s expedition against the Edomites. It has been conjectured that Zair is identical with Zoar.