Zorah
Zorah was a town in the Shephelah region, originally allotted to Judah and later to Dan, and was the hometown of Samson .
The name Zorah means “leprosy; scab; hornet”
PlaceOld Testament4 books10 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Joshua 15:33; only referred to as Zorah (צׇרְעָה).
Location
- Identified as
- Tel Tzora
- Certainty
- Likely (83% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 31.774° N, 34.985° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- צׇרְעָהZorah
Mentions
- These were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
- And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
- So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
- When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
- So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
- Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
- …in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,