Zebedee

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Zebedee (zibhdi, "the gift of God"; Zebedaios) is a name used in several contexts:

• In the Bible, Zebedee was a Hebrew fisherman, the husband of Salome, and the father of James and John, two of the Apostles of Jesus
• Zebedee was a character in the popular BBC children's programme broadcast from the October 1965 and January 1977 called The Magic Roundabout, and its later movie adaptation. The programme used images from the French programme Le Manège Enchanté, but with an entirely new script. It was speculated that the characters in the original French programme were based on then French politicians, and that the BBC's new script was based around psychedelic drugs, which each hippy-style character symbolising a particular drug or drug effect. No evidence has however been produced to support the claims, and they have been denied by the widow of the person who was responsible for the BBC version
• Zebedee is also villanous Z-stack character in the 1989 children's programme TUGS
• Zebedee is also the name of a Multi-User Dungeon game
• Zebedee is a nickname given to a 4-shot of coffee
• Zebedee is also a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed “tunnel” for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems.
• New Zebedee is the name of a fictional town which appears in children's works by John Bellairs and Brad Strickland.
• Zebedee is also the name of a pricing tool used by a major bank.
• Zebedee is also the moniker of a well-known London-based underground techno DJ.
• Zebedee is also the name of a scientific instrument manufacturer.