ZIBEON.See Anah.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Father of Anah, and grandfather of Aholibamah, Esau's wife (Gen_36:2). (See ANAH.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Zib'eon. (robber). Father of Anah, whose daughter, Aholibamah, was Esau's wife. Gen_36:2. (B.C. 1797). Although called a Hivite, he is probably the same as Zibeon, the son of Seir, the Horite. Gen_36:20; Gen_36:24; Gen_36:29; 1Ch_1:38; 1Ch_1:40.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zib?ḗ-on (צבעון, cibh‛ōn, ?hyena?; HPN, 95; Σεβεγών, Sebegṓn): A Horite chief (Gen_36:2, Gen_36:14, Gen_36:20, Gen_36:24, Gen_36:29; 1Ch_1:38, 1Ch_1:40); he is called the ?Hivite? in Gen_36:2 where ?Horite? should be read with Gen_36:20, Gen_36:29. In Gen_36:2, Gen_36:14 Anah is said to be ?the daughter of Zibeon,? whereas the Septuagint, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac, and Lucian have ?the son of Zibeon?; compare 1Ch_1:38, 1Ch_1:40, where also Anah is Zibeon's son.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Zib?eon (dyed), a son of Seir, phylarch or head of the Hivites (Gen_36:2; Gen_36:20; Gen_36:24; Gen_36:29).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
(Heb. Tsibon', צבְעוֹן, dyed [Gesen.] or robber [Fürst]; Sept.' Σεβεγών; Vulg. Sebeon), the father of Anah, whose daughter Aholibamah was Esau's wife (Gen_36:2). B.C. ante 1963. Although called a Hivite, he is probably the same as Zibeon the son of Seir the Horite (Gen_36:20; Gen_36:24; Gen_36:29; 1 Chronicles 1, 38, 40), the latter signifying cave-dweller and the former being the name of his tribe, for we know nothing of the race of the Troglodytes; or perhaps הִחַוַּי(the Hivite) is a mis-transcription for הִחֹרַי(the Horite). SEE ESAU.
Another difficulty connected with this Zibeon is that Anah in Gen_36:2 is called his daughter, and in Gen_36:24 his son; but this difficulty appears to be easily explained by supposing that בתrefers to Aholibamah, and not to the name next preceding it. The Samaritan, it should be observed, has בן. An allusion is made to some unrecorded fact in the history of the Horites in the passage This [was that] Anah that found the mules in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father (Gen_36:24). The word rendered mules (q.v.) in the A.V. is the Heb. יֵמַים, yemim, perhaps the Emim, or giants, as in the reading of the Samuel הָאֵימַים, and so also Onkelos and Pseudo-Jonathan; Gesenius prefers hot-springs, following the Vulg. rendering. Zibeon was also one of the dukes or phylarchs of the Horites (Gen_36:29). For the identification with Beeri, father of Judith the Hittite (26, 34), SEE BEERI, and also SEE ANATH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.