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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

zar-de'-us (Codex Alexandrinus Zardaias; Codex Vaticanus Swete and Fritzsche, Zeralias; the King James Version Sardeus): One of the sons of Zamoth who had married "strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:28) = "Aziza" of Ezr 10:27.