Zeruah

In Bible versions:

Zeruah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

mother of Jeroboam I of Israel

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leprous; wasp; hornet

Hebrew

Strongs #06871: hewru Ts@ruw`ah

Zeruah = "full breasted"

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

6871 Tsruw`ah tser-oo-aw'

feminine passive participle of 6879; leprous; Tseruah, an
Israelitess:-Zeruah.
see HEBREW for 06879

Zeruah [EBD]

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

Zeruah [NAVE]

ZERUAH, mother of Jeroboam, 1 Kin. 11:26.

ZERUAH [SMITH]

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

ZERUAH [ISBE]

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