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the name of a place and also of a man in the Apocrypha.
1. ( ôὰ ÃÜæçñá v.r. ÃÜóçñá ,Vulg. Gazeron, Gazara), the town of Palestine (1Ma_4:15; 1Ma_7:45), elsewhere called GAZARA SEE GAZARA (q.v.).
2. ( ÊáæçñÜ v.r. ÃáæçñÜ , 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 (Ezr_2:48).