Origin of the name Zilla:
Jewish name meaning "shadow, shade, gloom."
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Means "shade" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Zillah was the second wife of Lamech.
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Zillah, a character in "A Swiftly Tilting Planet," by Madeline L'Engle.
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