Hence founding and building can here mean no more than restoring and completing: just as elsewhere Nebuchadnezzar constantly calls himself the restorer of Bit Zida and Bit Saggatu.
At Borsippa he also built temples to the great goddess Nana, and to Bin; he erected a shrine in Bit Zida to Sin.
Bit Zida I have set up, and covered the shrine of Nebo with gold.
The subject appears to be some restoration in the shrine of E-zida at Babylon.
Enlarges temples of E-zida and E-sagila in Borsippa.
It may be added that in the Maqlu collection of incantation texts, Nin-gis-zida seems to be regarded as a goddess and the consort of Nusku, the fire-god.
However this may be, in Tammuz and Nin-gis-zida I see the Babylonian prototypes of the two pillars Jachin and Boaz erected by Solomon in front of the temple (1 Kings vii.
There is no reason for holding that the temple of E-Zida rebuilt by Khammurabi at Borsippa, was any other than the old E-Zida which was dedicated to Nebo.
But they kept a festival; they sacrificed peace-offerings to the gods in the temples of Saggil and Zida for the preservation of Babylon and Borsippa.
But they kept a festival; they sacrificed peace-offerings in the temples of Saggil and Zida to the gods for (the preservation) of Babylon and Borsippa.
At a certain period of the year, Tammuz and Gišzida were stationed in companionship as attendants at the gate of heaven.
Tammuz was a companion of Gišzida in the dominion of Anu.
His association with his friend Gišzida substantiates more fully the idea of his resurrection.
Tammuz and his companion Gišzida are seen mounting up to heaven where they receive stations as door-keepers in the gate of Anu’s house; in heaven they properly belong.
She is represented as dwelling in the temple of E-Zida at Borsippa, and was originally the consort of Nabu, the chief god of this place.
Previous to the rise of the city of Babylon as the political center, the Nabu cult in E-Zida must have been more prominent than the worship of Marduk in E-Sagila.
The chief sanctuaries to which the Neo-Babylonian kings devoted themselves were, in the first instance, E-sagila of Babylon and E-zida of Borsippa.
The inseparable association of E-Sagila and E-Zida is a tribute to Nabu which, we may feel certain, the priests of Marduk did not offer willingly.
Nabu was even granted a chapel in E-Sagila at Babylon, to which likewise the name of E-Zida was given.
E-Sagila and E-Zida become, and remain throughout the duration of the Babylonian religion, the central sanctuaries of the land around which the most precious recollections cluster, as dear to the Assyrians as to the Babylonians.
E-Sagil, and E-zida in Babylon and Borsippa in the year 270 B.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zida" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
