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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. (). Gesenius connects it with , "the palace shall be dissolved, and shall flow away" (Henderson) "... though firmly established" (see margin).