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# זְרֻבָּבֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2216

**Zerubbabel** — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Zerubbabel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2216/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְרֻבָּבֶ֫ל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2216/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (according to MV perhaps = זְרוּעַ בָּבֶל begotten in Babylon, v. also Thes prob. = Bab. Zêr-Bâbili = off-spring of Babylon, often in Inscr. (MeyE. Jud. v);)—grandson of king Jehoiachin, and son of Pedaiah 1 Ch 3:19(×2) (but son of Shealtiel Ezr 3:2, 8 etc., cf. שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל brother(?) of פְּדָיָה 1 Ch 3:17); leader of first returning exiles Ezr 2:2 = Ne 7:7, Ezr 3:2, 8; 4:2, 3 Ne 12:1, 47 Hg 1:12; 2:4 Zc 4:6, 7, 9, 10; called פַּחַת יְהוּדָה Hg 1:1, 14; 2:2, 21, called עַבְדִּי (by י׳) Hg 2:23.—𝔊 Ζοροβαβελ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zerubbabel (13); of Zerubbabel (5); O Zerubbabel (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.19/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י פְדָיָ֔ה זְרֻבָּבֶ֖ל וְשִׁמְעִ֑י וּבֶן־זְרֻבָּבֶל֙ מְשֻׁלָּ֣ם וַחֲנַנְיָ֔ה וּשְׁלֹמִ֖ית אֲחוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Pedaiah \[were\].Zerubbabel and Shimei and the.son of.Zerubbabel \[was\].Meshullam and Hananiah and.\[was\] Shelomith sister their

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

[Haggai 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.2.21/#tree)

אֱמֹ֕ר אֶל־זְרֻבָּבֶ֥ל פַּֽחַת־יְהוּדָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר אֲנִ֣י מַרְעִ֔ישׁ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* say to Zerubbabel the.governor of.Judah (cmp) I \[am\].about.to.shake (et) the heavens and (et) the earth

*JPS 1917:* 'Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: I will shake the heavens and the earth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2216.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2216/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).