The meaning of Zaccur in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
zak'-ur (zakkur, perhaps "ventriloquist" (Gray, Nu, 137)):
(1) Father of Shammua the Reubenite spy (Numbers 13:4).
(2) A Simeonite (I Chronicles 4:26); the King James Version "Zacchur."
(3) Levites: (a) a Merarite (I Chronicles 24:27); (b) a "son" of Asaph (I Chronicles 25:2, I Chronicles 25:10; Nehemiah 12:35); (c) Nehemiah 10:12 (Hebrew verse 13), and probably the same as in Nehemiah 13:13, father of Hanan.
(4) A marginal reading in Ezra 8:14 for Zabbud where Kethibh is really "Zabud".
See ZABBUD.
(5) Son of Imri and one of the builders of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:2).
David Francis Roberts
See more on the meaning of Zaccur in the Bible:
Zaccur {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Zaccur {Hitchcock's Bible Name}
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