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Zeruah

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Easton's 1897Smith's 1863ISBE 19151 verse reference

Easton's 1897

Stricken, mother of Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes (1 Kings 11:26).

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain

Smith's 1863

(full breasted), the mother of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (1 Kings 11:26) (B.C. 973.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863) · public domain

ISBE 1915

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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

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