ZER.A fenced city of Naphtali (Jos_19:35). It follows Ziddim (properly Hazziddim [with art.]), which may be the modern Hattin, N.W. of Tiberias. The identity of Zer is quite uncertain.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A fortified town of Naphtali (Jos_19:35). From the names which succeed in the list Zer is supposed to be S.W. of the lake of Gennesareth.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Zer. (flint). A fortified town in the allotment of Naphtali, Jos_19:35 only, probably in the neighborhood of the southwest side of the Lake of Gennesareth.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zēr, zer (צר, cēr; in Septuagint the verse (Jos_19:35) reads καὶ αἱ πόλεις τειχήρεις τῶν Τυρίων, κ. τ. λ., kaı́ hai póleis teichḗreis tṓn Turı́ōn, which implies a Hebrew text with הצּרים, ha-cūrı̄m, ?Tyrians?; this must be an error): One of the fortified cities in Naphtali, named between Ziddim (Haṭṭı̄n) and Hammath (el-Ḥammeh, South of Tiberias). If the text is correct, it must have lain on the slopes West of the Sea of Galilee. It is not identified.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Tser, צֵרrock; Sept. by misapprehension, Τύρος, Vulg. Ser), one of the fortified towns of Naphtali (Jos_19:35), where it is named between Ziddim and Hamnath; but from the absence of the copulative ("and") between this and the preceding name, as well as from the total ("nineteen cities") in Jos_19:33, it is evidently a part of the preceding name, Ziddim-zer. SEE ZIDDIM. Schwarz remarks (Palest. page 182) that Zer is mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah, 1) as lying near Ziddim.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.