ZIMMAH.A family of Gershonite Levites (1Ch_6:20 (5), 42 (27), 2Ch_29:12).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. A Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath (1Ch_6:20).
2. Another, son of Shimei (1Ch_6:42; compare 1).
3. Father or ancestor of Joab (2Ch_29:12); the same collocation of names is in 1Ch_6:20-21. The same names are often repeated in one family.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Zim'mah. (purpose).
1. A Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath. 1Ch_6:20. (B.C. after 1706).
2. Another Gershonite, son of Shimei, 1Ch_6:42, possibly the same as Zimmah, 1.
3. Father or ancestor of Joab, a Gershonite, in the reign of Hezekiah. 2Ch_29:12. (B.C. before 726). At a much earlier period, we find the same collocation of names, Zimmah and Joah as father and son. 1Ch_6:20.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zim?a (זמּה, zimmāh, perhaps ?device,? ?plan?): A Gershonite Levite (1Ch_6:20 (Hebrew, verse 5); also in 1Ch_6:42 (Hebrew verse 27); 2Ch_29:12). See Curtis, Chronicles, 130, 134 ff.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Zimmah', זַמָּה, purpose; Sept. Ζεμμά v.r. Ζαμμάμ and Ζεμάθ; Vulg. Zemma or Zamma), the name of two or three Levites.
1. A Gershonite, son of Jahath and father of Joah (1Ch_6:20); probably the same with the son of Shimei and father of Jahath (1Ch_6:42). B.C. post 1874.
2. Father or ancestor of Joah, which latter was a Gershonite in the reign of Hezekiah (2Ch_29:12). B.C. ante 726. At a much earlier period we find the same collocation of names, Zimmah and Joah as father and son (1Ch_6:20). This is but an evidence of the frequent recurrence of the same names in a family (comp. Mahath the son of Amasai in 2Ch_29:12 with the same in 1Ch_6:35; Joel the son of Azariah in 2Ch_29:12 and 1Ch_6:36; and Kish the son of Abdi in 2Ch_29:12 with Kishi the son of Abdi in 1Ch_6:44).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.