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

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Ezra 2:8 Nehemiah 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).