Gazera
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
Gazera ( 1Es 5:31 ). His sons were among the ‘Temple servants.’ In Ezra 2:48 Gazzam .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
the name of a place and also of a man in the Apocrypha.
1. ( Τὰ Γάζηρα v.r. Γάσηρα ,Vulg. Gazeron, Gazara), the town of Palestine ( 1 Maccabees 4:15; 1 Maccabees 7:45), elsewhere called GAZARA (See Gazara) (q.v.).
2. ( Καζηρά v.r. Γαζηρά , Vulg. Gaze), one of the Temple-servants whose "sons" returned from Babylon (1 Esdro 5:31); evidently the GAZZAM (See Gazzam) (q.v.) of the Heb. text ( Ezra 2:48).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
ga - zē´ra ( Γαζηρά , Gazērá ):
(1) A fortress of Judea ( 1 Maccabees 4:15; 7:45 ); in the Revised Version (British and American) always Gazara (which see).
(2) Head of a family of temple-servants who returned with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:31) = "Gazzam" in Ezra 2:48 and Nehemiah 7:51 .
