Zemarite

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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 from Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain).

Family

Parents: Canaan
Siblings: Amorite
Arkite
Arvadite
Jebusite
Girgasite
Hamathite
Heth
Hivite
Zidon
Sinite

Where Zemarite appears in Scripture

Genesis 10:18
1 Chronicles 1:16

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