GAZERA (1Es_5:31).His sons were among the Temple servants. In Ezr_2:48 Gazzam.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ga-zē?ra (Γαζηρά, Gazērá):
(1) A fortress of Judea (1 Macc 4:15; 7:45); in the Revised Version (British and American) always GAZARA (which see).
(2) Head of a family of temple-servants who returned with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:31) = ?Gazzam? in Ezr_2:48 and Neh_7:51.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Gazera
the name of a place and also of a man in the Apocrypha.
1. (τὰ Γάζηρα v.r. Γάσηρα,Vulg. Gazeron, Gazara), the town of Palestine (1Ma_4:15; 1Ma_7:45), elsewhere called GAZARA SEE GAZARA (q.v.).
2. (Καζηρά v.r. Γαζηρά, Vulg. Gaze), one of the Temple-servants whose "sons" returned from Babylon (1 Esdro 5:31); evidently the GAZZAM SEE GAZZAM (q.v.) of the Heb. text (Ezr_2:48).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.