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# צִדְקִיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Zedekiah** — used 56 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

Zedekiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִדְקִיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** -יָּה7 n.pr.m. (י׳ is righteousness; cf. Sab. צדקאל DHMib., on No. 32);—Σεδεκια(ς): last king of Judah, מַתַּנְּיָה, changed to צ׳: -יָּ֫הוּ 2 K 24:17, 18, 20; 25:2, 7(×2) = 2 Ch 36:10, 11, 1 Ch 3:15; Je 1:3; 21:1, 3, 7 + 37 times Je; -יָּה †Je 27:12; 28:1; 29:3; 49:34. false prophets: under Ahab, -יָּ֫הוּ 1 K 22:24 = 2 Ch 18:10, 23; -יָּה 1 K 22:11. -יָּ֫הוּ Jerem.’s time, Je 29:21, 22. -יָּ֫הוּ prince, Jerem.’s time, Je 36:12. -יָּה, priest, Nehem.’s time, Ne 10:2 (𝔊L Σεχενιας). -יָּה, son of Jehoiachin, according to 1 Ch 3:16, but prob. gloss, Be SS, cf. Kit.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zedekiah (48); of Zedekiah (6); O Zedekiah (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 21:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.21.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.21.3/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם כֹּ֥ה תֹאמְרֻ֖ן אֶל־צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Jeremiah to them thus you will.say to Zedekiah

*JPS 1917:* Then said Jeremiah unto them: Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

[2 Kings 25:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.2/#tree)

וַתָּבֹ֥א הָעִ֖יר בַּמָּצ֑וֹר עַ֚ד עַשְׁתֵּ֣י עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the city in.(the) state of.siege until one.plus ten year of the king Zedekiah

*JPS 1917:* So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b4_5d3_5b0_5e7_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/): 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).