Topic
Zeruah
1 passage cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Kings 11:26Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave Mother of Jeroboam
¶ And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
Stricken, mother of Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes (1 Kings 11:26).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 1 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
ze-roo'-a (tseru`ah, perhaps "leprous"): Mother of King Jeroboam I (1Ki 11:26), the Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus and Lucian omit the name in 1Ki 11:26, but the long the Septuagint after Massoretic Text of 12:24 reads (12:24b): "And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, a servant of Solomon, and his name was Jeroboam, and the name of his mother was Sareisa (Septuagint has Sareisa), a harlot."
See ZARETHAN.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 1 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Mother of Jeroboam 1Ki 11:26
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.