ZATTU.A family of exiles that returned (Ezr_2:8 = Neh_7:13 [1Es_5:12 Zathui]); several members of this family had married foreign wives (Ezr_10:27 [1Es_9:28 Zamoth]); its head sealed the covenant (Neh_10:14 (15)). See also Zathoes.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Zat'tu. The sons of Zattu were a family of laymen of Israel who returned with Zerubbabel. Ezr_2:8; Neh_7:13.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zat?ū́ (זתּוּא, zattū', meaning unknown): Head of a large family that returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem from Babylon (Ezr_2:8; Ezr_10:27; Neh_7:13; Neh_10:14 (15)). According to Ezr_10:27, some of his sons had married foreign wives, and Zattu is named in Neh_10:14 as one of the chiefs who signed Nehemiah's covenant. Septuagint A also adds the name before that of Shecaniah in Ezr_8:5, and so we should read, ?And of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah ...?; so 1 Esdras 8:32 has Ζαθοής, Zathoḗs. the King James Version has ?Zatthu? in Neb 10:14.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Zattu', זִתּוּא, pleasant; Sept. Ζαθουιά v.r. Ζαθθουά, Ζατθουά, etc.; Vulg. Zethua, Zethu), an Israelite whose sons to the number of 945 (or 845) returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2, 8; Neh_7:13); and another company of them returned with Ezra, although his name has accidentally dropped out of the text in Ezr_8:5, as we learn from the Sept and the Apocryphal parallel (1Es_8:32), which both read of the sons of Zathoe, Zechenias son of Aziel [orJezelus] (Keil, Comment. ad loc.). B.C. ante 536. Several of these descendants renounced their Gentile wives (Ezr_10:27).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.