Zattu

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ZATTU . A family of exiles that returned ( Ezra 2:8 = Nehemiah 7:13 [ 1E Esther 5:12 Zathui ]); several members of this family had married foreign wives ( Ezra 10:27 [ Esther 9:28 Esther 9:28 Zamoth ]); its head sealed the covenant ( Nehemiah 10:14 (15)). See also Zathoes .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Ancestor of some who returned from exile. Ezra 2:8; Nehemiah 7:13 . Several of the family married strange wives. Ezra 10:27 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Zat'tu. The sons of Zattu were a family of laymen of Israel who returned with Zerubbabel. Ezra 2:8; Nehemiah 7:13.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:8Nehemiah 7:13Ezra 10:27Ezra 10:14

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:8Nehemiah 7:13

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

zat´ū́ ( זתּוּא , zattū' , meaning unknown): Head of a large family that returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem from Babylon ( Ezra 2:8; Ezra 10:27; Nehemiah 7:13; Nehemiah 10:14 (15)). According to Ezra 10:27 , some of his sons had married foreign wives, and Zattu is named in Nehemiah 10:14 as one of the chiefs who signed Nehemiah's covenant. Septuagint A also adds the name before that of Shecaniah in Ezra 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.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(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; Nehemiah 7:13); and another company of them returned with Ezra, although his name has accidentally dropped out of the text in Ezra 8:5, as we learn from the Sept and the Apocryphal parallel (1 Esdras 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 (Ezra 10:27).