Hebrew word · H6871

צְרוּעָה

tzeru'ah

Zeruah

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A woman of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ki.11.26; married to Nebat (H5028);

mother of: Jeroboam (H3379)

§ Zeruah = "full breasted"

wife of Nebat and mother of king Jeroboam I of the northern kingdom of Israel

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

1 Kings · 1

  1. 1 Kings 11:26 צְרוּעָה֙ [was] Zeruah

    Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,

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