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Zebulun

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Name meaning

"honor; dwelling" · Hebrew

"Now will my husband dwell with me" (Genesis 30:20).

About

Tenth son of Jacob and the sixth by Leah. Leah named him Zebulun ('honor'). Jacob foretold his tribe would live by the seashore. Like Naphtali, his Galilean territory was where Isaiah's promised light dawned in the ministry of Jesus.

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FatherJacobFather
MotherLeahMother
Key Scripture AppearancesKJV
Genesis 30:20
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.Genesis 30:20, KJV
Genesis 49:13
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.Genesis 49:13, KJV
Isaiah 9:1
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.Isaiah 9:1, KJV
Matthew 4:15
The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;Matthew 4:15, KJV

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