ZOHAR

(Zoʹar) [reddish gray].

1. A Hittite whose son Ephron sold the cave of Machpelah to Abraham.—Gen. 23:7-9; 25:9.

2. Fifth-named son of Simeon and father of a tribal family; one of those numbered among the seventy of Jacob’s household who “came into Egypt.” (Gen. 46:8, 10, 27; Ex. 6:15) He is elsewhere called Zerah.—Num. 26:13; 1 Chron. 4:24.