Zeruah

Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ZERUAH . The mother of Jeroboam ( 1 Kings 11:26; 1 Kings 12:24 b).

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Mother of Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:24). Septuagint adds she was a harlot, and names her Sarira.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Mother of Jeroboam who became the first king of Israel. 1 Kings 11:26 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

1 Kings 11:26

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1 Kings 11:26

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

zḗ - rōō´a ( צרוּעה , cerū‛āh , perhaps "leprous"): Mother of King Jeroboam I ( 1 Kings 11:26 ), the Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus and Lucian omit the name in 1 Kings 11:26 , but the long the Septuagint after Massoretic Text of 1 Kings 12:24 reads ( 1 Kings 12:24 ): "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 .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Tseruah'. צְרוּעָה, smitten with leporosy [Gesen.] or full-breasted [Fü rst]; Sept. Σαρουά Vulg. Sarua), the widowed mother of Jeroboam the son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26). B.C. 973. In the additional narrative of the Sept. inserted after 1 Kings 12:24, she is called Sarira (a corruption of Zereda, Jeroboam's native place), and is said to have been a harlot.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Zeru´ah (leprous), the widowed mother of Jeroboam ().