ZACCUR zăk’ ər (זַכּ֥וּר, meaning mindful; once in KJV ZACCHUR 1 Chronicles 4:26; possibly ZABBUD זָבוּד, H2280, in Ezra 8:14 should be read Zaccur because of the resemblance between ב and ך, and between ד and ר). A very common name in Heb. 1. Father of Shammua of the tribe of Reuben, one of the spies sent by Moses to spy out the land (Num 13:4).

2. A Simeonite (1 Chron 4:26), son of Mishma. In Genesis 25:14 and 1 Chronicles 1:30 Mishma is an Ishmaelite name. Zaccur may have been an offspring of a mixed marriage of a Simeonite and an Arab.

3. A Levite of the Merari family, son of Jaaziah (1 Chron 24:27).

4. A descendant of Asaph the Levite one of David’s singers and also one of the singers who returned after the Exile (Neh 12:35; cf. 1 Chron 25:2, 10).

5. One of those who returned with Ezra from Babylon (marginal reading for Zabbud in Ezra 8:14), a descendant of Bigvai.

6. One of the postexilic Temple singers who was forced to put away a foreign wife during Ezra’s reform (1 Esd 9:24, but not mentioned in Ezra 10:24).

7. Son of Imri, one of those who helped Nehemiah rebuild the wall of Jerusalem (Neh 3:2).

8. One of the signatories to Nehemiah’s covenant (Neh 10:12).

9. Hanan, one of Nehemiah’s treasurers was a descendant of a certain Zaccur the son of Mattaniah (Neh 13:13).