James Strong

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James Strong,  Greek in a Nutshell

“ The circumflex (~) is placed on a syllable formed by the combination of two, the first of which had an acute and the second a grave; hence only on the last, or next to the last syllable, and only on a long vowel or a diphthong. When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex.
3. BREATHINGS, VOWELS, DIPHTHONGS, ETC.
§ 7. A vowel beginning a word takes either the rough breathing, ( ̔) , which is pronounced like h, or else, to show the absence of that, the smooth breathing, ( ̓) , which has no appreciable sound.
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Source: Gutenberg

James Strong,  Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible… (1890)

“ Zerubbabel.
2218 זָ֫רֶד (zeh'-red) : from an unused root meaning to be exuberant in growth; lined with shrubbery; Zered, a brook East of the Dead Sea: Zared, Zered.
2219 זָרָה (zaw-raw') : a primitive root (compare זוּר) ; to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away) , spread, strew, winnow.
2220 זְר֫וֹעַ (zer-o'-ah) : or (shortened) zroao; and (feminine) zrowpah; or zrowah; from זָרַע; the arm (as stretched out) , or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force: arm, + help, mighty, power, shoulder, strength.
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Source: Wikisource

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