GAZZAM găz’ əm (Heb. גָּזָ֑ם, traditionally derived from a noun for caterpillar, Amos 4:9). The name of the progenitor of some of the families of the Nethinim who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (536 b.c.), mentioned only in Ezra 2:48; Nehemiah 7:51. Mentioned as Gazera in 1 Esdras 5:31 (Gr. Γαζηρα).