Zemarite, son of Canaan
Zemarite is mentioned in 2 verses of the Bible, first in Genesis 10:18.
Family of Zemarite
Who was Zemarite?
The designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Gen. 10:18) who inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base of the Lebanon range. In the Amarna tablets (B.C. 1400) Zemar, or Zumur, was one of the most important of the Phoenician cities, but it afterwards almost disappears from history.
Biography adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain, linked via Theographic Bible Metadata.
Key verses about Zemarite
- Genesis 10:18
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
- 1 Chronicles 1:16
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.