Cozbi

Coz’bi. (deceitful). Daughter of Zur, a chief of the Midianites. Num 25:15; Num 25:18.

Num 25:15-18.

(Heb. כָּזְבַּי, Kozbi, false; Sept. Χασβί; Joseph. Χοσβία, Ant. 4, 6, 10), the daughter of Zur, a Midianitish prince. Phinehas, in his holy indignation, slew her, while in the act of committing lewdness with Zimri, an Israelitish chief, by thrusting a javelin through the middle of both (Num 25:15; Num 25:18). B.C. 1619.

[Coz’bi]

The Midianitish woman who was slain by Phinehas. Num 25:15; Num 25:18.

("deceiving"):

By: Emil G. Hirsch, Gerson B. Levi

A Midianitish woman, daughter of Zur, the leader of a tribe. She was put to death along with the Israelite Zimri by Phinehas (Num. xxv. 14-18).

COZBI.—The Midianitess slain by Phinehas (Num 25:15; Num 25:18).

koz´bı̄ (כּזבּי, kozbı̄, “deceitful”): A Midianite woman, distinguished as the daughter of Zur, “head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.” She was slain by Phinehas at Shittim in company with “Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites” (Num 25:6-18).