Commonly represented as queen of Nineveh. Rather the Zab country, E. of the Tigris, watered by the upper and lower rivers, Zab Ala and Zab Asfal. A-diab-ene, the best part of Assyria representing the who1e. The "Zab" is named in the inscription of Tiglath Pileser I in the 12th century B.C. (Na 2:7). Gesenius connects it with Na 2:6, "the palace shall be dissolved, and shall flow away" (Henderson) "... though firmly established" (see margin).

A word occurring in Na 2:7. Gesenius derived it from a verb ts

Huz'zab

This seems to be a symbolical name for Nineveh. The word signifies 'established;' as in the margin. That which counts itself as established shall be carried away captive. Na 2:7.

Huz'zab

(fixed), according to the general opinion of the Jews, was the queen of Nineveh at the time when Nahum delivered his prophecy.

Na 2:7

(B.C. about 700.) The moderns follow the rendering in the margin of our English Bible --"that which was established." Still it is not improbable that after all Huzzab may really be a proper name. It may mean "the Zab country," or the fertile tract east of the Tigris, watered by the upper and lower Zab rivers.