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Zeruah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ze-roo'-a (tseru`ah, perhaps "leprous"): Mother of King Jeroboam I (1 Kgs 11:26), the Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus and Lucian omit the name in 1 Kgs 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.

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Person Zeruah

Kilde: Easton's Bible Dictionary (M.G. Easton, 1897) og International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (red. James Orr, 1915/1939), public domain. Translated into Danish with AI and not yet proofread (fully or partially). Links to people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0).