Bible Dictionary
Zeruah
The mother of Jeroboam I, the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Definition
Zeruah was the mother of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Biblical Usage
She is named in the account introducing Jeroboam’s family and rise to kingship.
Historical Background
The supplied material gives differing explanations of her name, including “stricken,” “full-breasted,” and possibly “leprous.”
Scripture References
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Stricken, mother of Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes (1 Kings 11:26).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(full breasted), the mother of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (1 Kings 11:26) (B.C. 973.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>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."</p><p>See ZARETHAN.</p>