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# צְרוּעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6871

**Zeruah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Zeruah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6871/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְרוּעָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6871/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. mother of Jeroboam 1 K 11:26, 𝔊A Σαρουα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] Zeruah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 11:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.26/#tree)

וְיָרָבְעָם֩ בֶּן־נְבָ֨ט אֶפְרָתִ֜י מִן־הַצְּרֵדָ֗ה וְשֵׁ֤ם אִמּוֹ֙ צְרוּעָה֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה אַלְמָנָ֔ה עֶ֖בֶד לִשְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וַיָּ֥רֶם יָ֖ד בַּמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and Jeroboam the.son of.Nebat an.Ephrathite from (the) Zeredah and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Zeruah a.woman a.widow a.servant of Solomon and he.raised a.hand on the king

*JPS 1917:* And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6871.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6871/): 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).